Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through cheering crowds Victor Roosevelt drove to the Capitol to start his mopping up. At the side door of the House wing, he shed his silk topper, his dark overcoat and revealed himself in his new uniform, a handsome ash-grey cutaway with trousers to match. The White House secretariat-Son James, Stephen Early, Marvin Mclntyre-racked their toppers in a row on the trunk behind the Presidential tonneau. and the official party entered the Capitol...
...more general use of dark-field microscopic examination, either direct or delayed, in the diagnosis of early syphilis...
...past four months tourists to the State Capitol at Jefferson City, Mo., many of them eating as they walked, have passed into the oblong Italianate Representatives' Lounge and gaped earnestly at a small, dark, wiry man painting furiously in a faint odor of rotten eggs, while the walls slowly blossomed with mule skinners, Mormons, dancing Negroes and Mississippi boatmen. Artist Thomas Hart Benton last week had finished, and some of the most important murals in the U. S. were ready for their formal unveiling...
Small, fiery, once given to soup-bowl haircuts and dark Quaker garments, he has been called "the Little Giant'' for his resemblance to Orator Stephen A. Douglas...
Local opinion of him became practically unanimous when hot-tempered Jean, who had no love for the canting Covenanters and was much drawn to Clavers' dark good looks, saw him superintending a bloody flogging. That night, when they met at a ball, she publicly insulted him. 'But it was all a terrible mistake. The man she had seen flogged was one of Clavers' own brutal troopers who had been caught torturing Jean's old nurse. In a few hours Jean learned the rights of it, apologized to Clavers as publicly as she had insulted...