Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdoor girl is Mrs. Harvey Seeley Mudd, 48, wife of a Los Angeles mining engineer. Tall, dark, slender, until five years ago Mrs. Mudd was a typical society matron, noted for her large & lavish parties, her charitable activities, her ancient Roman jewelry (dug up in Cyprus). But five years ago Mrs. Herbert Hoover (who has become as well-known an ad for the Girl Scouts as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt is for the airlines) suggested that the Girl Scouts be revitalized by people with fresh viewpoints, named Mrs. Mudd as a natural revitalizer...
What made Teutons fear and Gauls love Sir Eric Phipps was his wit, as dark and quick as sparkling Burgundy. One night while he was in Berlin, Field Marshal Hermann Göring arrived at an Embassy party late and breathless. Bowing deeply, Göring roared: "I have just come from the hunt." Sir Eric examined Göring from head to foot, and drawled: "Animals, I presume...
...them assured me several times that, as a tank officer, he was the winkle on the pin if war should ever begin in earnest. ... He enjoyed his dark saying as a priceless joke...
...Square with marchers stolidly carrying hundreds of identical pictures of Stalin. There are scenes in Ninotchka's small apartment whose limited lebensraum she shares with a girl cellist, a beefy Russian streetcar conductress of the kind Poet e. e. cummings called "non-men," and a dark, dumpy little man who plods silently in & out-"You never know whether he is going to the washroom or the secret police...
...live out the whole vast length of her life, the trivial with the towering, the bitter with the sweet, as the essential Perfect Woman; married, raising a family, standing at the center of its vicissitudes, learning, at the end, to "believe at last with whole heart in all the dark splendor, all the terrible beauty of the world." Her flawless marriage darkens and dulls, her bachelor friend is lost to death, found again in spirit, her husband dissolves into alcohol and she brings him through, her daughter dies in childbed, the Lusitania sinks, the promising son turns out disappointingly, Harding...