Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already entered the house and were hiding in the hall. His wife, hearing the scuffle, telephoned to Sheriff Robinson. The Sheriff found the jail yard filled with squatting figures. He was admitted through the front door, knocked down, laid beside Jailer Taylor. The visitors drove off with their dark, gibbering prey...
Significance. Newsgatherers wrote glibly for a day about "The Entente of Leghorn." They hinted profoundly at a dark deal between Sir Austen and Il Duce to "counterbalance" the Franco-German "Entente of Thoiry" (see p. 14). Then Sir Austen climbed into a wagonlit, sped to Paris, conferred with Foreign Minister Briand, returned to London. By common consent the correspondents decided that all bets in favor of an "Entente of Leghorn" were...
...Birmingham, Eng,, a druggist lay in his dark bed thinking about his past day's business. He caught his breath, lay deathly still, gasped, sprang up, lit his candle, paced his floor. He pored through the telephone book, telephoned the police, rushed to a series of addresses, called up the newspapers, searched hospitals, enlisted radio. His one clue was a name, "Penn." After three days, from London came a telegram signed by a Mr. Penn, allaying his fears, telling him that the next post would return to the druggist, unopened, the box of pills into which, in his night...
Author Dobie "devoted his daily hours to insurance" until he was 35. Now, at 45, he has written a book most of which is as beautiful as the eyes of Adrienne, clear as the amber of her mother's eyes, rich as the "wine-dark sea" of her father's. The John Day Company (TIME, Sept. 20) has begun its publishing career with a brilliant novel...
...kisses not for our mouths, light the dark summer...