Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time these men can get down, Virginia will have the Stadium and there will be no place in which to hold an open practice except the usual Varsity field. Due to the short time before dark and the fact that spectators have so little room to move around in on the Varsity practice field, Coach Harlow decided to omit the usual open session. He definitely promised, however, to open the Friday workout to bursarscardholders before the Navy and Yale games...
...alive on the morning of November 4th. He finds that his prediction has come true, and waking up to a world which seems outwardly as substantial as it has ever been, he is delighted to turn his thoughts into other and more refreshing channels than the deep dark and turbulent moat of politics...
...office behind the door is modest, unostentatious, paneled in dark oak. Wallis spends 12 to 14 hours a day in it. Outside is a lounge resembling a small cocktail bar where daily waits a long succession of writers, supervisors, agents and technicians for decisive two-or three-minute interviews. Wallis checks every budget, red-penciling items he thinks too high. Models of every important set are carried in to be demonstrated to him. The mild, incessant hum of well-routined activity is occasionally broken by stormy story conferences. Producer Wallis may reject other men's ideas but he rarely...
THREE-WHEELING THROUGH AFRICA-James C. Wilson-Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). As the strange and obscure folkways of African natives become better known, white travel-writers through the dark continent are driven to increasingly eccentric exploits in their desire to stay off beaten paths and make interesting copy. Net result is that a collection of recent African books is likely to give armchair travelers a vague feeling that both blacks and whites in Africa habitually suffer from a touch of tropic sun, natives indulging in some pretty weird ceremonies, their white observers indulging in carrying-ons no less grotesque. A patient...
...murals are both derived from old Norse legends, and the use of modern accessories to make the allegory more vivid has been twisted in ridiculous fashion by newshawks into a slam at Nazi aims and methods. Nothing could be farther from the truth than these inane shots in the dark...