Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home four blows with a long thin knife, and nimbly escaped as Paris passers-by rushed to help the stricken man but only drew to themselves the snarling attentions of his two big dogs. These faithful beasts stood guard over their stricken master as he lay weltering in a dark puddle of mud and blood, died before any human could reach...
...naturalized U. S. citizen of 49, dark-eyed Enea Bossi was a pioneer pilot in Italy, taught famed Giuseppe Bellanca how to fly. Later he designed many successful ships, fought in the War, where he knew Corporal Benito Mussolini fairly well. Said Enea Bossi last week: "He's a big fella now. I've only seen him twice since he got to be a big fella...
...dark winter of 1932 "Uncle Dan" Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and eight other railroad presidents met 21 representatives of railroad labor in the Palmer House at Chicago. The U. S. railroads, said "Uncle Dan" in effect, were just about broke. Maintenance and fixed charges had been cut to the bone. Would the 1.000,000 U. S. railway employes take at 10% temporary deduction in pay to save the roads from ruin? The workers' representatives said yes. Two years later in Washington Capital and Labor again got together, agreed on a staggered plan to restore the deduction, thus unsensationally...
...George Brewer Jr.; Aldrich & Myers, producers) is a praiseworthy attempt to dramatize the political middle-of-the-road and to distinguish, in the blind storm of passionate prejudices which howl from the Right and Left, the path of truth and justice. In so doing, Playwright Brewer, who wrote Dark Victory for Tallulah Bankhead two seasons ago, occasionally loses his dramatic footing, but never his sense of criticism or fair play...
...When dark, lanky, impetuous Howard Hughes set a world's landplane speed record of 352 m.p.h. in a plane built by his own company, it became apparent that he had, besides a genius for movies and money, the finest racer in the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). When he set a new transcontinental record of 9 hr., 26 min. in a standard Northrop "Gamma," it became equally apparent that he was a top-notch pilot (TIME, Jan. 27, 1936). Last week, when he got around to combining these two superlatives, the result was precisely what might have been...