Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hatted West-Enders returning from their revels loitered in the chilly streets of London early last Sunday morning to watch the Duke of Norfolk's partly-dressed rehearsal of the Coronation procession. Thousands of others rose from their beds while it was still dark, turned out to get a better idea of what happens when a British monarch is crowned than most of them will get on the day of the ceremony. At 6:16 a.m. the procession moved off en route for Westminster Abbey. As the four-ton gilded coach, similar to that in which King George & Queen...
...last week there were many rustling signs of spring among Cuba's politicians. As the buzzards wheeled lazily by day and the business life of Cuba went peacefully on in the sunbright streets and sleepy countryside, at night in the city of Havana the secret conferences of dark-eyed men talking softly and rapidly became longer and subtler and more intense. The Republican Actionist Party of impeached President Gómez, who spent the winter attending exhibition baseball games with ostentatious humility, suddenly spurted with a violent manifesto characterizing Acting-President Laredo Bru as "a decorative figure...
...Mexico City last week the huge front doors of the nation's chief Cathedral groaned on their hinges, swung open as they do only when an Archbishop is installed or dies. In walked a lean, dark man with horn-rimmed spectacles, Archbishop-elect Luis Maria Martínez y Rodríguez, raised by Pope Pius XI from bishop coadjutor of the provincial diocese of Morelia to be Catholic primate of Mexico (TIME, April 5). Within the Cathedral were hundreds of clergy, wearing habits and vestments rarely permitted them in public during recent years, and thousands of poor, pious...
Last week British journalists described Victoria Palace audiences as "bewildered" by what they saw. Through the gloomiest of blue lights on a Stygian-dark stage, behind a gauze curtain, Diane appeared and rolled her hips. The audience sat still as mutton. Diane, accustomed to Broadway's anticipatory outburst of clapping, was nonplussed but stuck to her strip-tease routine. The next move, she thought, would get them. Sinuously she let fall from her creamy shoulders a vast chiffon cape, then, striding rapidly to the wings, unsnapped her split skirt, showed a shapely thigh just before she disappeared. In vain...
Twice gassed and wounded, he was given vocational training by the Veterans Bureau after the War, trying successively art, salesmanship, photography, journalism. On the Omaha World-Herald, his dark skin, long, sharp nose, thinning hair and bespectacled seriousness earned him the nickname "Gandhi...