Black Maria
Example Sentences
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The Black Maria, also called "the Dog House," was the first movie studio ever constructed.
From Salon • Apr. 2, 2022
Ferguson’s Gang, as they called themselves, were masked, anonymous activists who went by codenames such as Bill Stickers, Granny the Throttler, Black Maria and Red Biddy.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019
So let’s start where the novel does, winter ’53, with one of the feared Black Maria trucks arriving in darkness to arrest Solomon Levinson, an actor from the defunct State Jewish Theater.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2016
Instead of documenting the world, Edison created his own, bringing subjects to his Black Maria studio in northern New Jersey.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2010
The object of this air-hole is to allow the mast to season itself; the reader may remember that the mast of the "Black Maria" is made the same way.
From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Murray, Henry A.
