Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Owing to the fact that the presidential party reached the State Game Lodge at Custer Park after dark, cameramen could not well picture their arrival. U. S. cinema patrons will, nevertheless, see the event quite as if it happened in broad daylight. For, on the following morning, the President and Mrs. Coolidge staged an after-the-show rehearsal and motored up to the lodge with cameras vigorously grinding. ¶Household employes at the State Lodge are under the supervision of Miss Ellen Reilly, White House housekeeper. Miss Reilly came to the White House some twelve months ago. She had previously...
...middle centuries, so this modern Black Plague periodically sweeps two out of three from the ranks of reasonable men and therefore deprives them for the time of the right to al themselves civilized. The doctor has eradicated the old Black Plague, or has driven it into the dark corners of the earth. Never again will it sweep the crowd in cities, striking as it goes. Today the doctors of public opinion, the men who write, who edit, who produce, who talk, have before them a greater opportunity than ever before to eradicate the Twentieth. Century Black Plague. Let the people...
...June 14, 1926) but not the Senate. 2) Premier Poincare has been so busy rescuing France from her financial slough of last year, doubling the value of the franc, and tentatively stabilizing it, that no one seriously expected him to make of his debt-funding plans anything but a dark state secret until stability was achieved. Now the question of ratification has begun to loom again, and M. Poincaré answered it last week with characteristic flashing suddenness...
When the heart has ceased to beat is the body dead? Certainly many persons have been buried after mere certification that their hearts have ceased to beat. Some have come alive in the dark tomb, only to die unsuccored. May it then be that the heart pulsations are not paramount in sustaining life? Such is the theory advanced last week by Dr. Martin Mendelsohn, holder since 1899 of the Chair of Diseases of the Heart at Berlin University. He declared that other tests than cessation of the heartbeats must be made before certifying a patient dead...
...court as one enters, and at the end of the west arcade, is the so-called Great Hall, a full two stories in height, and lighted on the eastern side by three large windows. The ceiling of the Great Hall is an acquired masterpiece of French workmanship, a dark, heavily-beamed, sixteenth century ceiling from Dijon. The whole of the ceiling is richly carved. A small second-floor balcony and a number of windows on the west side, at an eye's level above a concealed passage, permit a close inspection of the whole. In the west passage leading...