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...plot centers around a Welsh coal mining family which revels in the beauty of its green valley. But in time, the slag and soot cover all that was green-in both nature and the miners. As the slag piles increase, the Morgan family gets bigger and poorer, their daughter becomes eligible, their sons turn radical, and the bosses start cutting the wages. This is the backdrop for the hour and a half of dramatic entertainment that follows...
...Japanese XI Army Corps had been involved. Once and for all the Japanese had tried to wipe out the Chinese threat along the mid-China chain of lakes; and they had failed. They had caused considerable damage-had reduced most of the buildings of Yale-in-China to a soot-blackened monument of U.S. mission enterprise-but they had been chased away in no-uncertain fashion...
...sank into the most luxurious easy-chair of his sumptuous suite. "Why can't they leave the outing clubs at Dartmouth, where that sort of thing belongs?" His complexion was losing its summer tan, taking on the familiar city sallowness, and his eyes were red with Cambridge soot. This Cambridge Scrooge rested upon his recumbent spine, and his head nodded...
Painter Martín is a true product of La Boca. A foundling, he was adopted as a child by a coal heaver, Manuel Quinquela. He grew to boyhood with an incorrigible habit of messing up the Quinquela home with coal and charcoal, drawing soot-colored pictures wherever he could find a clean space. The Quinquelas finally went to the parish priest about it. The priest bought the boy drawing materials, told him to make his drawings on paper instead. Quinquela Martín, completely self-taught, became renowned throughout La Boca for his drawings; his reputation spread...
...late Robert S. Abbott, publisher of the once-powerful Negro Chicago Defender, was soot-black. His two wives were white as snow. Wife No. 1 went around with her brownskin sister in order to prove that she was a Negro. Wife No. 2-Nordic-featured, with grey-blue eyes and straight chestnut hair-had no discernible relatives, dark or white...