Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland's cavernous Public Hall, in the last dark row beneath the overhanging balcony, a lonely Cincinnatian last week called to those seated in front of him: "If it wasn't for you folks, I'd be afraid way out here in the country." Heads turned. A voice came back: "I understand they hunt deer up here between Rows J and K." The answer was cut short by a hammering sound, hollow and staccato, like a hatchet assaulting an orange crate: The 21st Republican National Convention was gaveled to order...
Fortnight ago a gang of WPA workmen were placidly sandpapering the features of a marble George Washington in Philadelphia's dark old City Hall. Suddenly a hoarse, poodle-haired Italian swept among them, seized their abrasives, roared: "Halt! Halt!" The impulsive newcomer was Sculptor Giuseppe Donato, the Philadelphia Municipal Art Jury's most mercurial member, who well knows that sandpaper is not good for the texture of marble. Sculptor Donato forthwith ran to the office of Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, puffed out his complaint. No art expert, Mayor Wilson gave Sculptor Donato authority to complete the cleaning...
RETURN TO COOLAMI-Eleanor Dark- Macmillan ($2.50). Author Dark makes conservative use of the stream-of- consciousness technique in a carefully manipulated account of a two-day motor trip in Australia, during which a serious marital tangle is straightened...
...after the Duchess of Kent who, he had noticed, was then much in the news. Last week Kata Ragoso. now 34, was striding the streets of San Francisco, his bushy hair blowing, his small white teeth gleaming, his sturdy black legs and large black feet entirely bare beneath the dark-blue serge skirt, of tivi tivi, which distinguished his otherwise orthodox business attire, Chief Ragoso was in the U. S. partly as observer, partly as exhibit. at the 43rd general conference of Seventh-Day Adventists from all over the world. As observer, Kata Ragoso was chiefly struck by painted white...
Blue Bedroom was planned "to give the effect of sleeping on a cloud"-a dark blue rug, fading blue walls, light blue ceiling, plenty of mirrors. Bachelor's Bedroom, to "appeal to a bachelor in search of a bedroom," was painfully ugly, notably in an iron bed "amusingly decorated in red and white bed ticking." "Drama" came from a crimson carpet. The firm's explanation of the room's confusion was that it was for "a person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue...