Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurricane of wind swept everything before it. ... Through the jet black night only the majestic contour of vast Alagoz, the volcanic mountain with its dome of eternal snow standing out like a beacon on the broad Leninakan Plain, could be perceived...
Followed an anthem which practically no one knew, the national song of Mexico. Jet-eyed young José Munoz-Cota of the National Preparatory School (Mexico City) required no further encouragement to launch again upon his famed oration "Bolivar and the Latin-American Peoples" with which he defeated all-comers for the Mexican title (TIME, June 28). Master José's audience understood but little of what he said, for he spoke in purest Spanish. The final oration, by Maxime Raymond Fuel of Nancy, France, was also unintelligible to most of those present though it sounded very well...
...Langley, a vigorous woman in her forties, with rather pretty features, abundant jet black hair, will be no commonplace figure in the House of Representatives. Her large, heavily-veined hands show that she has worked hard, that she has worried...
Captain Anthony Jones, having lived long in Arabia with an extensive harem, is as innocent of Western scruples as he is full of fiery fascination. His is the poetic aplomb that can borrow from another inamorata's father the jet trotters necessary and fitting for his sleigh ride to seduce Lanice at a snug suburban...
Ushers with tall combs and white mantillas stole back up the aisles as the house lights faded out. The orchestra blared some opening bars, then hushed to a faintly drumming vamp. Into a pool of amber light on the empty stage, stepped a small woman with hair of jet, a stocky little figure in velvet flounces, with a broad, flat face of extraordinary mobility. Her black eyes grew slowly wider and deeper as a spattering storm of applause burst upon her, swelled and rumbled with calls of "Brava! Brava!" which took five minutes to blow over...