Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy continued to ship troops to Africa regardless. British indignation caused the collapse of the Hoare-Laval Deal for ending the Ethiopian War, but British opinion was strongly against starting another war against Italy to save Haile Selassie's dark skin...
...Dark Horse on Dog Food...
...Presidential nomination in 1920, why can't I get it in 1936?" Like Harding, "Dick" Dickinson, with his big frame, Roman features and shock of silver-white hair, makes a handsome, impressive figure. Like Harding, he would personify a return to normalcy after a hectic Democratic regime. For Dark Horse Dickinson, oldtime Harding supporters have been quietly conducting the same kind of preconvention campaign that Harry Daugherty put on for his Dark Horse in 1920-unobtrusively making friends, taking care not to offend leading candidates, building up a man on whom irreconcilably opposed factions could unite after a convention...
...Vice-Presidential nomination away from Martin Van Buren. The first beneficiary of the two-thirds rule became its first victim. In the 1844 convention Van Buren got a majority vote for the Presidential nomination on the first ballot, could not raise it to two-thirds. Tired delegates compromised on Dark Horse James K. Polk. At Baltimore in 1912 the two-thirds rule changed the history of the world when Champ Clark got a majority on eight ballots, finally lost the nomination to Woodrow Wilson...
...Concert Intime" in Washington, D. C. last week the solo performer was a dark-haired, comely young woman who appeared in a low-cut Nile-green gown, bowed graciously to her audience, raised a gold trumpet to her lips, closed her eyes and proceeded to tootle. Her arm muscles twitched while she played. The ruffles on her bosom and the orchids on her shoulder fluttered fitfully with each inspiration. But otherwise there were no signs of exertion...