Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark house, rambling across the top of a windy hill in Cleveland Park, Washington, D. C., was once the home of Grover Cleveland. Here he repaired in hot weather. The rooms, swept by a fresh continual draft, were filled with the rustle of stiff conversation and stiffer silks; the approaches were guarded, then as now, by large iron dogs. Now Red Top is filled with the rhythmic music of carpenters' hammers; Red Top is being torn down to make room for a modern house, one not infested with reminders of stuffy and strenuous gaiety, hushed talk Coxey...
...ease and uniformity. She proceeded about half a mile beyond the Union Tavern, at the township line, and returned immediately, a distance of six miles, at a speed of about 28 miles to the hour, her speed having been slackened at all the road crossings, and it being after dark, but a portion of her power was used. It is needless to say that the spectators were delighted...
Career. Anton Smetona, now 53 years of age, is conceded to be one of the greatest Lithuanian patriots of all time. For 20 years he worked for Lithuanian nationalism and independence against the oppression of Tsarist Russia. A diminutive man, dark, with narrow, beady eyes, a stubby goatee spread over his chin and a bushy, drooping moustache hanging orderly from his upper lip, he is an excellent, forceful speaker, sound, indurate, potent...
...wandered for six days, drank the water of a little ebony river, beat away the attacks of two small, ferocious and invisible animals, peered at rough, curious arches that swung and loomed in the waving of his torch, reached a hitherto unknown exit after wandering 70 miles through dark and crusted corridors...
Clicking smoothly over groomed lawns, globes of lignum vitae or other dark and ponderous fibre, rolled down into India, over the Himalayas, through the hot, level borders of Persia onto the deck of a Spanish boat, over the blue waving turf of the Mediterranean, through Spain to England. Here, half the world away from China, yokels at twilight gathered on a sward, awninged by oak trees, bordered by oak-beamed cottages, breathed hard and bent over to twirl great wooden spheres-bowls, they called them in England...