Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, but for over 21 years he had had no peace. When he was taken to Joliet Penitentiary to serve 14 months for threatening Banker Forgan, he was in a predicament. In Box No. 198 in the vaults of Chicago's National Safety Deposit Co. he had four black powder gaspipe bombs. He solved his problem momentarily by throwing away the safe deposit...
Beside the consul and his consort, soon there were living at the comfortable Hughes-Hallett establishment in Detroit's Indian Village, three white rats named Mehitabel, Ermyntrude and Sonia; a special brown-and-black-spotted rat called
...Sultan; a guinea pig named Winnie-the-Pooh; two garter snakes, Becky Sharp and Thackeray; two four-and five-foot pilot black snakes, Pythagoras and Snookie; an adolescent alligator, John Lewis; Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's mother and two bubbling, healthy children, Son David (now at Cambridge) and Daughter Kathleen (an Olympic-team fencer...
Last week he quit while he and Pitt football were good, and his resignation was quickly accepted by Chancellor Bowman. On the campus students wore black mourning bands with JOCK printed on them in silver; the student paper, The Pitt News, printed two blistering columns blaming Jock's departure on "blundering...
...marks of the Irishman: the rhetoric of freedom, the rhetoric of chastity, the rhetoric of honour, the power to excite sudden deep affections, loyalty to the long-buried past, high-aims qualified by too mocking a sense of humour, serenity clouded by petulance and broken by occasional black despairs, playboy charm and theatricality, imagination that overruns itself and tires, extreme generosity, serpent cunning, lion courage, diabolic intuition, and the curse of self-doubt...