Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hartley Stock Farms at Page in Cass County, N. Dak., won first junior heifer with Blackbird of Page and first prize two-year old bull with Eventuation of Page in the Black Angus class. These two animals were both grand champions at the American Royal held at Kansas City recently...
...murdered prosperous, farm-owning Lawyer Clay Watkins, his landlord. At 2 o'clock Christmas morning lynchers broke into the county jail, roped the jailer to his bed, with his keys opened Fugate's cell. Accompanied by scores of assistant assailants they rode Fugate out of town, black-jacked him, trampled on him, drilled his body with 13 bullet holes, pitched him over a 20-ft. embankment...
...Cruising off Newport, R. I. one night last week, a coast guard patrol boat leveled its searchlight on a dark, low hull bearing the number C-5677. Guardsmen, recognizing the liquor-runner-suspect Black Duck shouted stop orders. When the Black Duck veered to speed away, guardsmen opened fire, killed three suspected smugglers, wounded a fourth...
...Frenchman took a big black paint brush last week and did his best to write in the bright lexicon of the Hoover-MacDonald Five-Power Naval Conference the four-letter English word "Fail...
This the third change in the last 20 years. The traditional crimson jersey first gave way to the black, which in turn was discarded in favor of the red and black of recent years...