Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...babies should come one by one. Her normal life has been so upset and changed by the birth of the Quintuplets. My new son looks very much like the Quints, but he is much bigger (8 lb.). He's a fine healthy boy with brown eyes and dark hair. Elzire believes a child is the gift of God. The Ontario Government doesn't give her much credit for anything! She believes God intends her to endure the pains and she lets God's will be done...
...saloons, and extended to cinema theatres when these were mostly nickelodeons, the purpose of the New York law was less to prevent children from seeing movies that might damage their morals, than to keep them out of reach of the pickpockets, kidnappers and perverts supposed to be lurking in dark theatres. As cinemansions improved, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children campaigned to retain the law on the ground that moving pictures might give children bad ideas. Hereafter, to theatres which pay $10 for the privilege of having them, children may go, unaccompanied by adults...
...Dark-maned, trumpet-voiced Stephen Samuel Wise was not in Providence's Biltmore Hotel last week to hear himself elevated to the Zionist presidency. Zionist Wise was in London, conferring with famed Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann and members of the British Government on current Arab-Jewish strife in Palestine (TIME, July 6 et ante). From London Dr. Wise sent word of his gratification, added...
...valve in an artery, the victim usually feels an excruciating pain at that point. Simultaneously "the affected extremity becomes paralyzed, cold and pale, the pulses disappear, and in a few hours the skin becomes mottled with a bluish hue. . . . On the fingers and toes, or sometimes over prominent bones . . . dark blisters appear which may open and from which the gangrene spreads...
Into the Manhattan offices of Review of Reviews last month stepped a short, dark-haired youngish man who introduced himself to Associate Editor David Page as Pledge Brown, a onetime newshawk on the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle. Producing a letter from Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum thanking him for an article on the New Deal's Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that...