Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cezanne's paintings develop under the eye almost as a picture takes its shape in the photographers dark room. They are rarely taken at a glance on first acquaintance. The landscape (in a literal sense) unfolds hit by bit, objects take their place in space in the inter space relation within the picture,--the tree in the foreground grows in convincing reality by which we look to the distant hill; suddenly the thing is formed, we see it clearly. The picture remains a picture but just as in actuallity the certainty of the relative fixation of objects is convincing...
...Washington, August J. Keck, 57, cook, going down his dark cellar steps, suddenly felt his black house cat clawing viciously at his pants leg. He 'was standing, momentarily, on the cat's tail. The cat screeched; Cook Keck jumped, tripped, fractured his skull against the cellar floor...
...Cornstock acted as president of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. In this capacity he hunted Satan, finding his prey sometimes in the guise of a bartender brandishing a pack of cards, more often as an abortionist fumbling with a contraceptive, most frequently as a pornographer raising the dark symbol of a dirty book. His chasing of pornographers did not always end with a clean capture. Over a fairly long period Anthony boasted that he had driven 15 persons to their death, a good number by suicide, others by an act of God. A lady in Philadelphia, mildly...
...DARK GENTLEMAN-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Setting her eye about at the level of the kennel doors at the Casa Lucceola, which is near San Remo on the Riviera, Author Stern relates with considerable finesse certain events that took place there in March, a fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish...
...sleek visitor. During the two nights and a day that he was closeted with Rennie, Tessa the Seductive, the Disdainful, was even reduced to writing him poetry and in her abandon asked Toes, who rolled with mirth, what rhymed with "spaniel." That was why Kim sarcastically called him the Dark Gentleman of the Sonnets and part of the reason that Boris nearly ripped out his silky black throat; would have, too, but for the Savory Legs (Italian gardener). The Dark Gentleman flaunted his scars to the French poodle next door when he got home, imagining in his afterglow that...