Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Particularly praiseworthy in Harlow's mind has been the effort and improvement of several "dark horse" Yardlings. Many of these men are playing in new positions and seem to have benefitted from the change. Among the men who have shown up well are Bill Coleman, Holie Wood. Ed Daniels, Ben Wood. Mose Hallett, Dauk Curtis, Gus Soule, Peter Thompson, and Pinkey Winslow...
...better drivers are married and only moderately well-off. While a dark-eyed person is less subject to glare blindness than a blue-eyed one and therefore a better night driver, he is more apt to be colorblind, said Dr. DeSilva...
...Vagabond is a timid fellow, and when the path of love has rocks as big as Widener scattered about on it, he seeks consolation in the company of his old friend Keats. After a few lines of drowsy numbness, the world no longer looks so dark. Of late the correspondence to and about Fanny Brawne has taken the place of the sonnets as the cure...
...lawyer named O'Neill, who admits that he has plenty of brains but no character, and is therefore no good. He is altogether of the Sidney Carton pattern, except that at the last minute he is cheated of his opportunity to die heroically. He it is who in the dark hours establishes chains of brotherly love. His usual style is to hold forth in eloquence and mock piety, to the amusement of himself and his listeners off if not on the stage. The part is admirably handled by Ramon Greenleaf, who preserves the air of masterful nonchalance throughout...
...enemy fleet by sinking a ship across the narrow harbor entrance. Because of his knowledge of ship construction, Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, nine years out of Annapolis, was chosen for the attempt. With seven volunteers aboard the stripped old collier Merrimac* he steamed up to the harbor in the dark of the moon on June 3. Everything went wrong. Eight of the ten torpedoes with which Hobson had planned to scuttle his ship refused to explode. The Spaniards were execrable marksmen, but they shot away his rudder chains and the Merrimac drifted helplessly past its mark into open harbor. There...