Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Limelight (by Gordon Sherry; Busbar & Tuerk, producers). The villain of Black Limelight suffers from "nyctalopia." This medical term actually means an eyesight defect resulting in poor vision at night, but for the purposes of Author Gordon Sherry (a pseudonym) it refers to eyes which can see well in the dark but must be protected by thick glasses from the light of day. The monster's homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic pride...
...with a heart of deep maroon, was christened by John B. Lager, its flower godfather. Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized. Henceforth child & orchid will bear the same name: Kate Roosevelt...
With the quick, precise steps of a dancing master, a stocky, dark-haired little man hurried last week across the stage of Carnegie Hall, climbed the podium, bowed to the packed house with such vehemence as to send his hair awry. It was a night of nervousness and novelty. It was the first performance of the Philharmonic's 95th season. It was the first time in ten years that the season patrons could not look forward to a single concert under their beloved Conductor Arturo Toscanini. It was the first time that John Barbirolli, 36, had ever faced...
...spite of the fact that Marcy and Channing have run good races, and in spite of the fact that the others stuck pretty closely behind them, they still failed to lick Yale which will be entered in the I.C. 4 A competition. In other words the outlook is dark, so dark in fact that no one is doing a great deal of worrying about the affair one way or another...
NORMANDIE--Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupation, which is known as the COCKTAIL hour (apologies to HWL.) Every afternoon from 4.30-7.30. Popular Prices Always Prevail...