Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frontier, blow-in-your-pile, forty-niner spirit charming. So it may be to a few; the most delicate women may like men with hairy wrists. But New York's lumberjack psychology dispels any idea that America is civilized. Rather it seems that here are the germs of new Dark Ages...
...White, on the other hand, at 58, can only shudder, or pretend to, at the "dark and awful things" he saw in barns, woods and alleys. It is not for him to live within himself. He must paint a dismal background against which the present will seem bright. So that he can say: "Those boys of a drab and dirty day, grown mature, have performed a miracle . . . modern civilization ... a great agricultural empire ... a rich industrial commonwealth . . . out of the bottomless cornucopia of Providence," etc., etc. He accuses men his age of overmuch pride in their material achievements and sentimentality...
...basketball outlook is not as dark as anticipated. A dearth of substitutes is the worst problem Coach Wachter has to solve. The second team to date has shown itself noticeably inferior to the first string combination...
...tastefully-furnished Rooms, A and B, have been set aside by the Harvard Union for the use of those who are eating at the club tables. New shades and dark red portieres have been provided, and during the winter months a fire will cheer the eaters during dining hours...
...grizzled giant back to sanity. Galahad, who grew to rival his father at arms, kept him at her castle for several years of half-happiness, though Lancelot never ceased to love Guinevere. This Elaine, honest, fearless, beautiful, has caught her author's sympathies in the net of her dark hair (though she wore it cut short) and is the tale's real heroine, dead of loneliness (but not repining) at the end. Guinevere and Arthur leave us more or less hand in hand, she feeling that, of the three men whom she tried to improve-Arthur, who cheerfully...