Word: portent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad daylight of Sunday afternoon a ball of fire dropped from the skies and landed on a roof in Harlem's darktown quarter. To distant observers this phenomenon must have had as awful portent as Bardolph's flaming nose, perhaps dire prediction of the approaching eruption of such active volcanoes as Mount Borah, Mount La Follotte and Mount Hiram Johnson. But distance lends enchantment and observers who were not distant noon pricked this loinantie bubble of would-be anthology. The meteor proved to be nothing but a negro, dressed like Mephistopheles in crimson tights and tunic and hitched...