Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheriff was holding him until he got what was coming to him; he must know what that was. One of the deputies bent to trim the lantern when a grunt from the sheriff stopped his hand; the three men and the huddled shadow listened intently. It was beginning. Darkly, softly borne on the dark soft air, a noise of voices reached the warehouse?tumbled cries, deep and shrill blended together, struck through with the note of an automobile horn continuously blowing. They were in the lane, they were coming up the hill, they were at the door. Lights glared...
...Woman, Boat. Above six feet in height, full of face and broad of figure: Oscar Frederick William Olaf Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane and Crown Prince of Sweden. Small, dark, sharp of feature: Louise, Crown Princess of Sweden, daughter of Prince Louis Battenberg, second cousin of the Prince of Wales, great-granddaughter of the great and plump Victoria. Under their feet: the motor-ship Gripsholm making its way into New York Harbor...
...famed and wealthy evangelist, builder and owner of the $1,000,000 Angelus Temple, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, has disappeared. No one can account for her. All that is known is that three weeks ago she entered a beach hotel and reappeared in a bathing suit variously described as dark green or dark blue. She was a well formed woman and attracted many an idle eye. High-piled, unshorn dark hair; full, wide lips a little irregular; unusually white teeth; a generous nose; eager, long-lashed eyes-her description has been so minutely detailed that it is certain she prepared...
...were to muster before me the murderer with blood-wet hands, the thief in possession of his loot, the highwayman armed with bludgeon and pistol, the firebug with his torch, the burglar with dark lantern and jimmy, and if you were to place with that assembly of rogues the wretch who had corrupted an election, I would unhesitatingly declare the corruptionist the blackest scoundrel of them all. I would so say because the man who attacks the foundations of his Government and thereby assails the very structure of society is the greater criminal, the more intolerable villain, for his criminality...
Yale's honor societies are far from unique in nature, but at no U. S. college are inscrutable orders taken more seriously, nor have they such compelling interest for the world-at-large. At the University of Virginia there is the famed Raven, dedicated to the dark memory of Edgar Allan Poe. At Colgate there are the weird Skull and Scroll, and Gorgon's Head. University of California has its Skull and Key and its Golden Bear. Other famed senior societies: Owl and Serpent (Chicago), Iron Cross (Wisconsin), Skull and Snakes (Leland Stanford), Iron Wedge (Minnesota), Quill...