Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news stands in Springfield, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., last week, there appeared for sale an article which set many a passer-by to wondering. It was a phonograph record, not black but brown; no thicker, scarcely any heavier, than a stiff piece of paper; and it bore the name of an unknown corporation called Durium Products...
...Bott. British pressmen can find a striking similarity between Editor Bott's journalistic policies and his Wartime activities. After having served in the Artillery and Royal Flying Corps in France and Mesopotamia, he entered the British espionage system. Captured by the Turks in 1918, he dramatically escaped across the Black Sea into Russia, whence he made his way through Bulgaria to Salonika. For his Turk-spying he was given the Military Cross with bar. Gleaning two bits of information where but one guarded bit grew before is for him a predilection and a hobby...
...round he dodged the terrific right uppercuts and left hooks winged at him; he countered, ducked, and backed away, but at the start of the second Camera rushed out of his corner at a speed amazing for so big a man, landed a right, then rapid rights and lefts. Black Owens went down backward flat on his shoulders, and stayed there while the referee counted ten. This was in Newark, N. J. Jubilant, Carnera returned to the Park Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, broke two chairs in his arms as he capered about, pretending they were women he was dancing with, drank...
TALES TOLD OF SHEM AND SHAUN- James Joyce-Black Sun Press (Paris...
Rheumatism combined with overwork have reduced Author Joyce to near-blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most...