Word: tarred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That's how they pronounce it in the Carolina mountains. This particular girl was careless enough to get herself kissed on the lips by a vagrant Northern millionaire. Thereupon, the simple village menfolk consider her disgraced and rally round to marry her and reinsure her honor. Shotguns and tar are meted out to the unhappy Northerner. A rope is around his neck when the lady, having kissed, decides to tell...
...Coal Tar Compounds reported...
...certain very rich man, old even then, with a sharp, meagre face and deliberate gait, dragging by the hand a small, disagreeable-looking boy in a homely tunic, who cast terrified glances behind him at faces that leered from entries and windows-agreeable faces enough, but black as tar, with large white teeth, white eyeballs, which that backward-staring boy found inconceivably horrible. John Davison Rockefeller and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. were visiting the campus of Hampton Institute (for Negroes). Naturally the good-natured blackamoors stared at this rich old man and his scrawny, trembling son. Last week, this...
...GLENCAIRN-Four early sea stories of Eugene O'Neill done with all the salt and tar and rum that can be collected on a stage...
...salt, tar and rum that can be collected on a stage...