Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several sections of the Dark Convent have been investigated under the superintendance of Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory; Hanover, Johannesbury, and Bloemfontein have all been found favorable for stellar observations. The last-site mentioned is on the whole the best of the three, according to the authorities, and will probably be selected...
...Regardless of party, these Senators will soon learn to admire the Republican leader in the dark suit in the back row-Sen. Charles Curtis...
...plaintiff, Miss Louise Owen, a dark-eyed graceful woman, for 20 years Lord Northcliffe's secretary, made sensational charges against his brother, Lord Rothermere, who has succeeded him as the great overlord of the British press. Miss Owen charged that Lord Rothermere, as an executor of the Northcliffe estate, virtually sold to himself control of the Daily Mail Trust, in 1922, at four pounds a share, whereas the shares were allegedly worth seven pounds. She asked, as one of the Northcliffe heirs, that this sale be now set aside, a step which would unbalance the whole newspaper structure of England...
...Gardens last week. There, in a caged watertank, lay 24 feet and 352 pounds of mottled horror. Hunters had stalked the jungle for nine months. Wary of their prey they had laid a great bait. At last he had come, eunectes murinus, the snatcher, coiling dangerously out of a dark stream. They took him after he had gorged and lay inert. Natives clustered about chattering, "Sucuri! Sucuri!" (local term for a reptile). They dreaded the monster as do all hunters save immediately after its meal, which occurs only about four times yearly...
...hangs of fate of the not unpleasing flapper heroine--lends a back-ground and flavor not to be found in the ordinary detective thriller. The past, the primitive past, with its mysteries and festivals that one feels are perhaps after all part of man, hangs over the book, a dark and rather compelling cloud...