Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Small in stature, dark in complexion, he is?but for one feature ?undistinguished in appearance. The notable feature is a high nose which starts outward and upward from his face imperiously, as if pronouncing destiny upon all it surveys...
Central Park, Manhattan, appears by day to be an ill-kept wasteland of stunted trees, ragged meadows, walks so tracked with gum-wrappers that they resemble the wake of a paper chase. At night not so; then the trees are like huge bundles of dark feathers, the lawns like scraps of green silk patterned with pathways. Here gum-chewers, muttering "loves me ... . loves me not . . ." as they tear the wrappers from their chiclets, take delight in strolling, in listening to the music coming from the Mall, where Edwin Franko Goldman conducts his band...
Similar lighthouses mark other routes, besides the 900 air-miles between New York and Chicago. From the air, a pilot can see his dark course plotted out 100 miles ahead by luminous, moving asterisks...
...Professor Henry R. Spencer, of Ohio State, saw a U. S. Mussolini lurking in public apathy toward public problems. "When public spirit sleeps, the dark powers have their chance," he said...
...mother, Mrs. Anne ("Fifi") Stillman, is a gypsyesque person. On the Grande Anse estate in Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer...