Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a bewhiskered fortnight in the nowhere off the Maine and Nova Scotia coasts, Franklin Roosevelt went ashore last week and once more climbed back on to the front page. His seagoing sideburns were gone before he showed himself in range of a camera. A few minutes after dark his chartered schooner Sewanna dropped anchor in Friar's Bay below the Roosevelt cottage on Campobello Island, N. B. Forty red-coated Canadian police drawn up on the dock snapped him a brisk salute as the sleepy President went in to supper...
...last week British kings have always appeared at such functions in resplendent uniform. Edward VIII wore a dark grey morning coat. Though rain soon began to patter, ladies whose expensive garden frocks were being ruined remained so obviously eager to drop their curtsies to His Majesty anyhow that he permitted them to continue until presentees began entering the durbar tent in sopping and sodden condition...
Suddenly there was a shocking pause as before 10,000 people Father Coughlin literally unfrocked himself. Stepping back from the microphones, he peeled off his black coat, ripped off his Roman collar, plucked out the collar button fastening his neckband. Back to the rostrum, a chunky man in dark pants and open shirt, he leaped to roar: "As far as the National Union is concerned, no candidate which is endorsed for Congress can campaign, go electioneering for, or support the great betrayer and liar, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...members of Britain's present Government Cartoonist Low presents as sly and hardened gangsters. Thus Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, a derby pulled far down on his head, his coat collar up, a blackjack in one hand, faces the reader saying, "You know you can trust me." In the dark background the League of Nations lies slugged and dazed...
...joined in the picture-taking, the 21 postulants, brides-to-be of Christ, entered the chapel wearing white gowns, white-blossomed veils and carrying candles. In the sanctuary one by one they knelt, begging Bishop Thomas J. Walsh of Newark to admit them to the religious community. From each dark head full-fledged nuns removed the white veil. The Bishop substituted the shiny black sunbonnet-like headdress of the Maestre Pie. Now a novice, each girl walked back from the sanctuary in the black habit which she expects to wear for the rest of her life teaching in the order...