Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary to his papa Senator, appeared as a musician at a fashionable tea. John Nance Garner appeared as an off-the-record speaker at a luncheon of the National Press Club and packed the gallery. Boston's beaver-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham chuckled with delight in his dark apartment in what was formerly the Arlington Hotel-where he and the Resettlement Administration are now sole tenants -when he received from the U. S. Consul in Kenya Colony official assurance that his long forgotten record of shooting six leopards on a 17-day safari is still tops...
...zealous Jesuit and a poet with a substantial Catholic following is Rev. Leonard Feeney, 39, author of Fish on Friday, Riddle and Reverie, Boundaries. Dark, wiry Father Feeney taught English at Boston College from the time of his ordination nine years ago until he lately joined the Jesuit weekly, America, as columnist. As a guest preacher, he mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral the Sunday before Christmas and, conscious of the superb sounding-board which that great fane afforded him, sermonized on a subject which he had half-whimsically, half-seriously pondered. Said Father...
...disk one night last week flitted a ruddy shadow, tilted about eight degrees to the east. It was an appulse of the moon, visible in most of North America and parts of Europe. Associated Press's Science Editor Howard Blakeslee compared the sight to "a bandit with a dark cap drawn down over his forehead...
...Actress Cornell's performance, spectators found it in her customary grand manner. In a sarong and dark makeup, she was perfectly at home in another of her bravura roles which please her devotees best and which have led her privately to observe that an actress of her stature cannot afford to appear in a good play...
...dire forebodings are promptly fulfilled. In the dark abode of the Séverins, where no sunlight ever penetrates, the exiles are tormented by a hideous assortment of demons. The worst of their enemies is old Colonel Séverin, whose history is so involved that most of the 483 pages of Shining Scabbard are required to get it elucidated. During the Franco-Prussian War, it appears, the gallant officer was cashiered for contemptible cowardice. Now, in 1914, he is still trying to get the judgment reversed, meanwhile spending most of his time in bed, appearing mysteriously in good health...