Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile. The bitter winds droned, the ether pulsed with wireless signals, blank white leagues of steppes and frozen lakes passed underneath for 21 hours before the staunch dirigible Norge swooped slowly to her mooring mast at desolate Vadso on the north tip of Scandinavia, 700 miles from Leningrad (where she had waited two weeks for repairs and good weather on her way from Rome-to-Nome). Pausing only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent...
...Remember Mamie. Say could you forget her. Try and do it. It was swell. And she wore the fur coat with the mange, the old one. I told her to sell it to a cleaner for shamy, but she didn't. She had a friend of Charly's, a blank check and that's no lie. He went under early, looked like a malted milk and took the count I just had to laff. I couldn't help it. So they went home and Charley made a wise crack. I can't remember what it was but it was funny...
THREE KINGDOMS-Storm Jameson-Knopf ($2.50). One of the first things that will strike you about Miss Jameson is that she belongs to that widening circle of young Britishers who have fallen into the habit of calling a spade a double-blank, worm-turning, corrupt appendage of his Satanic majesty. Some call it the return of Elizabethan zest, all this hardriding, goddamning and firing of bon-mots that whiz like shells by night but look like duds in the morning. Caroline, the female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows...
...necessary however to send the required personal information in life blank form, nor is it essential that every Senior have his picture taken at Notman's. A full tone, glossy print from any studio will be accepted by the Committee as well as such statistics as birth, name, prepartory school, and college activities, written on ordinary note paper...
...Special cases the Committee will supplement life blank with a picture from the 1926 Red Book, or add scanty information from the office files to an acceptable photograph but it will not fill both deficiencies if neither information not photographs are received...