Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zooming through Harlem, two days later, between dark rows of its populace drawn up along the sidewalks of Seventh Avenue, President Roosevelt, in the back seat of an open Pierce-Arrow, waved his tan felt hat. At the entrance to the Polo Grounds, the car crossed the sidewalk, went through a gate usually reserved for groundkeepers' trucks, rolled across the outfield, stopped at a box near the Giant dugout. The President threw out the first ball of the second World Series game, postponed 24 hr. on account of rain...
...evening last week an automobile with a big trailer stood parked on a peaceful hillside near the town of Washington in southern Indiana. Below, at the bottom of a dark slope, the waters of a small lake shimmered faintly. The hour was nearly midnight and the car itself was dark and empty, but a soft light glowed from the windows of the trailer where a honeymooning couple were preparing...
...stillness of the night the car, with its lighted trailer outlined against the dark foliage of trees, began to move. Almost imperceptibly, then faster, it rolled towards the lake below. Suddenly light shone brightly from the door of the trailer. The figure of a matronly woman appeared, sprang into the night. A tall, broad-shoulered man followed. Pell-mell down the dark hill they ran beside the rolling caravan. Then the woman jumped for the running board of the car to pull its brakes. She slipped, fell, lay groaning, while her distracted companion rushed to her side. The car rolled...
...attempt to froth a happy ending over Ramona's widow-weeds is not a major flaw. The picture is so pictorially arresting it might almost do without a story. Dark cottonwoods and yellow wheat, the greens and reds and rolling con-tours of the San Jacinto mountains where it was filmed, spread themselves out for the technicolor camera like a war-chief's blanket. Historically accurate since there has been little change in the landscape since 1870, Ramona pours its eye-filling opulence through many frames: Ramona's wedding breakfast, the horse race at the Fiesta, Alesandro...
...runs his fastest. When forced to effect a strikeout, Hubbell does so as slowly and as painfully as possible. In the offseason, Pitcher Hubbell's amusement is hunting. When pitching, his cheeks look drawn, his trousers hang down far below his knees. Off the diamond, he wears dark clothes, walks with a slouch, speaks in monosyllables...