Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various representatives of Medieval thought. They were presented not as "ists" perambulating a pet "ism" but as men straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind the mists that swirl about the human mind. Any lingering doubt as to the brightness of the so called "dark ages" in the minds of his hearers was completely, dispelled. As Professor Gilson often points out it is only possible to paste this label on the centuries following the fall of Rome if intellectual activity is confused with philosophical speculation...
...plays in prospect, the all-star revival of "Trelawney of the Wells," Martin Brown's "The Dark" (tried out in Boston last year), and the Neighborhood Playhouse's production of "Pinwheel" seems to be most promising, with the last being the most likely to be fine...
...full front page photograph in the New York Daily Mirror, tabloid. As everyone knows, I disowned my daughter Ellin when she married Irving Berlin, songwriter, and I have also refused to visit the baby or let the baby visit me. The child, which was photographed asleep, looks like any dark, fat, healthy baby. People say this is the first time any baby's picture has occupied the entire front page of a newspaper. The day following its publication, my daughter Ellin said: 'Naturally my father could not have recognized me in the baby, because...
...France, affected surprise and concern upon discovering that it was not, after all, a very "nice" war. The young men hated their duty and believed, according to this writer, that the best talisman for an airman was "a garter taken from the left leg of a virgin in the dark of the moon...
...title or riches is no longer a passport to a life of honor or respect. Even princes must have careers, nowadays, or their bobbed haired ladies, what with their books and their lectures will quickly eclipse them and they will find themselves stuffed in a cupboard in a dark corner labelled "consort". No, the days when one married a kingdom and only incidentally a lady are gone forever. Moreover it has become customary in these affairs of late to secure the services of Cupid rather than those of the minister of state as marriage broker. But of course marital emancipation...