Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with them on a rice-selling expedition. They chartered a sampan, and after no few experiences, managed to buy ten sacks of the valuable grain from a schooner at Macao. They sailed back to Hongkong, to find the port closed. They were caught while trying to slip in after dark, and had to durop their cargo to avoid a fine...
...Crimson does not expect to remain an isolated champion of the Banner of the Seven Veils and the Bell which Rings in the Dark. Some other official spokesman for the ethereal may quickly come to the aid of this lady whom the Albanian Comus would discredit. Until then the Crimson stands alone Margery, essence, quintessence, undefiled, the local pid to notoriety the face which launched a thousand messages she must not be defiled unless Congress would really like to investigate...
...Brother (Harold Lloyd). Great dark houses crashed and rocked with laughter last week. Funnyman Lloyd is loose again. Before permitting himself to be released Mr. Lloyd always examines his gag staff* to be sure no drop of marrow lingers in their funny-bones. He asks the continuity men if they have achieved the highest possible pitch of acceleration. The result is houses that crash and rock. Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts...
...Horace Greeley was a onetime schoolmistress who never learned to keep house. A contemporary thus described her: "Mrs. Greeley was a woman rather below the medium size, thin, with dark hair and eyes. She had thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly?not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall...
...consort, King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Still less has Queen Elena herself been able to exert any real pressure on events in the kingdom of her father. In a word, she is respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened or enlivened her. Had she possessed the taste for pearls, for magnificence, for pageantry of her late mother-in-law (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), the Dowager Queen Margherita, splendor-loving Italians might have enthroned Elena in their fickle hearts...