Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lemmens, posing as a chauffeur. In back was a blond, immaculate Englishman named Sigismund Payne Best, amateur musician, husband of a famous Dutch society painter, Mariettje van Rees, something of a getabout in Dutch circles; owner of a large house mysteriously close to the Royal Palace. With him was dark-haired Captain Richard Henry Stevens, well known as the head of the British Secret Service on the Continent. These two were posing as peace mediators. With them was a certain Dutch Army officer named Lieut. Klop, posing as a friend...
That the night was clear when this picture was taken is shown by the short, concentric arcs on the dark background of the sky-star trails made during the photographer's five-minute exposure...
Last week the fans near went past themselves. They cheered lustily for Ralph Oves, Lincoln's towering center, who stands out in the line like a moon on a dark night (Oves is the only white player in Negro football). They set off firecrackers, one of which, mistaken for the timekeeper's gun, sent the players to the sidelines. They tooted piccolos during timeouts, chanted A-well-a-take-um-a-Joe (crapshooters' lullaby...
...Iowa City (pop. 16,000), where she rooms with a private family, Miss Margaret Campbell got up at 5:45 (it was still dark) one morning last week When she was dressed, in a neat blue silk blouse and a blue wool skirt, she went outdoors to start her 1933 Ford coupe and her day. Miss Campbell, 26, teaches school in a typical one-room country schoolhouse. In such schools, 2,500,000 U. S. children get their education...
That done, dark, horsy Melville President Ward Melville, son of the late Founder Frank (who fathered the idea of selling cheap, standard shoes at a fixed price), upped the price of his Thom McAn men's shoes 15? to $3.30 a pair. He intimated he was doing so for the good of the industry...