Word: slating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were singularly delicate but it was her color that struck me most. ... It seemed a some-what dim white or pale grey. . . . It was not white, but alabastrian, semipellucid, showing an underlying rose colour. . . . in shadow . . . rosy purple to dim blue. The eyes . . . flamelike . . . a tender red. The hair . . . slate . . . sometimes intensely black . . . sometimes white as a noonday cloud...
...told you it would not be a surprise"-to reporters asking what birthday present she would give her father. The "surprise" was triple: 1) a bowl of water with four toy boats, ticketed For naval parity; 2) a toy terrier-I am Scottie too; 3) a slate-Let us reckon up our debits and credits...
...coal daily. With coal mines within sound of their buzz saws, Abitibi pulpmakers saw a chance to make newsprint still more cheaply for U. S. newspapers. Lignite, or "wood-coal," is geologically half way between turflike peat and smudgy bituminous coal. It is hard, looks like dirty brown slate, burns without smoke, is clean to handle. Mined in the U. S. in North and South Dakota and Texas, it is useful in domestic furnaces, or as pulverized fuel in manufacturing plants...
...Huston, tall, lean, with slate-blue eyes and tight lips, claimed credit for first breaking the Solid South, because, with his help, Harding carried Tennessee in 1920. Under Secretary Hoover he served two years as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Firm friends they became, have remained to this day. Mr. Huston raised a half million dollars for the 1924 campaign, even more for 1928. In Tennessee he is, among other things, vice president of the Chattanooga Wheelbarrow...
...Freshman tennis team kept their slate clean and ended up their season by a close victory over the Eli netmen, 5 matches to 4. Practically all of the contests were close, four of them going to three sets, the comeback of Captain D. M. Frame '32 and Edward Orlandini '32 to capture the first doubles match from Harte and Warner of Yale, 1-6, 6-4, 6-5, exhibiting especially brilliant playing. The matches were played on the Divinity Courts...