Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-six years ago Louis Eckstein married Elsie Syndacker, a dark, handsome University of Chicago girl, picked out for him by a Chicago woman in whom he had confided his wish to marry. Pretty Mrs. Eckstein never cared much for opera, but with devout admiration for anything her husband did she attended Ravinia every night so long as he ran it. Mr. Eckstein left her about $1,000,000. was reputed to have given her five or six million more before he died. She has been deaf to all appeals to revive Ravinia Opera, feeling that no one could...
...ambulance which had been hidden behind bushes slipped up to the train. Mr. Morgan in a dark blue silk lounging robe, white flannel trousers, a white silk scarf, was wheeled to the railroad car's rear door. Four men lifted Mr. Morgan & chair to the ground. The ambulance's stretcher on wheels was ready. Mr. Morgan, his legs dangling, partially helped himself to the stretcher, partially was lifted. Soon as he arranged himself comfortably, bearers swung the stretcher into the ambulance, bounced the patient against the ambulance roof. He uttered no sound...
...encyclical pointed out that "a motion picture is viewed by people who are seated in a dark theatre and whose faculties . . . are relaxed." It deplored the "havoc wrought in the souls of youth and childhood . . . the loss of innocence so often suffered in motion-picture theatres. . . ." It regretted the inability or indisposition of right-minded Catholics to become cinema producers, whose wares would be morally an improvement upon Hollywood's. After 3,500 or so words the encyclical came down "to certain practical indications...
...central character is Anthony Beavis, a dark-haired, full-lipped individual who looks like a meditative child. His particular artistic dislike is Proust, for he considers Proust's absorption with the past repellent and perverse. Anthony is living with resentful, brown-haired Helen Ledwidge in the south of France when the story opens, and he has, Author Huxley establishes with his backward glances, good reasons for avoiding a clear look at his own past behavior. Helen and Anthony are making carefree love on the roof when a grotesque accident violently deflects the course of their lives. A dog falls...
...Marshall Field was an Institution. To Chairman McKinsey, who entered from the top as a professional management counsel, Marshall Field was a corporation with a problem. The two viewpoints were incompatible. As Mr. McKinlay's successor, Mr. McKinsey suggested Vice President Frederick Dexter Corley, a tall, blue-eyed, dark-haired merchant of 53 who got his start in the millinery department at 18. The suggestion was accepted by the Marshall Field directorate within five minutes...