Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individuals had kept the news of his whereabouts a secret for a week. In Weald, Kent, where the Lindberghs' children, Jon and Land, remained last week, villagers are trained to secrecy about the Lindberghs. They booked passage as Mr. and Mrs. Gregory. Embarking at Southampton, Colonel Lindbergh wore dark glasses, remained unrecognized. For the first 24 hours of the voyage, he and his wife stayed in their cabins. To a steward, sent to invite them to sit at Captain James E. Roberts' table, the Colonel said: "You undoubtedly recognize me. I am Colonel Lindbergh...
Cantor: Hark! Out of the deep . . . Dark . . . Inner vast . . . Gulf of carnal sleep . . . Full, fast . . . Thou up-wellest . . . One . . . As on a sea . . . Remote! . . . No Thee . . . And Thine . . . Ineffable, lavished . . . Zest . . . In ravished . . . Rest . . . Divine! (Soft shudder of great gong...
...sculptors included in the Cleveland show, Zorach, Heinz Warneke and John Flannagan, got a more varied display of their work in Manhattan's Passedoit Gallery, sharing honors with Spaniard Jose de Creeft, whose Semitic Head was the most impressive single piece on display. Done in beaten lead, this dark maiden was also highest priced ($4,000) in the exhibit...
...fine pianist, and I don't want anyone to get the impression that I think I am. I'm just a composer who plays and whose friends are kind. Also I don't want anyone to think I have any illusions that Dark Dancers is great music. . . . It's just a pleasant score. . . ." Not every composer is able or willing to give such an accurate estimate of his abilities. Though grey-haired, exuberant Charles Wakefield Cadman has been lately somewhat neglected by sophisticated music lovers in favor of younger and more sensational composers, he remains...
...pocket billiards (vulgarly called "pool"), pale, dark-haired Ralph Greenleaf ranks about tops, has been champion most of the time for 15 years. Last week in Philadelphia Billiardist Greenleaf and lantern-jawed Billiardist Irving Crane each had eight victories and three defeats after a three weeks' tournament among twelve top-ranking players. In the eleventh inning of the playoff, Crane, having scratched five times, found himself with a total of minus one to Greenleaf's 49. Then Billiardist Greenleaf strode to the table and started sinking balls so fast that one had scarcely thudded into a pocket before...