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Word: darke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...dark-bearded portly man, whose flowing garments billowed opulently, wandered through the gaudy Spring Fair at Fez last week, buying here a mechanical piano, there a thoroughbred stallion, a typewriter, jeweled sandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Morocco | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Furthermore the cast has lost two of its most important performers and collected only one notably apt substitute, a girl "named Bobbie Perkins. She is dark and she dances and everybody liked her. The rest, aspiring artists who solve the mob and the servant problems in the various Theatre Guild productions, were confidently capable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 24, 1926 | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Politics, like baseball, depends upon the unusual. When the logical candidate wins, interest flags. A dark horse, however, enjoys the same popularity, at least with the reading public, as a pinchhitter in the ninth inning. In the primary fight in Pennsylvania, a dark horse has poled out a home run that will probably carry him into the senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A POLITICAL HOME RUN | 5/20/1926 | See Source »

...hope and that everything is going wrong, someone does some such positively assinine thing that your faith is completely restored. One can do one of two things, to be dogmatic; he can keep facing the sun until it blinds him; or he can turn around and face the dark with the sunlight making a halo about his head and sell pot boilers to the natives. Well I do not contemplate chronic opthalmy...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

White channels and dark coats, which have become the conventional dress during the last few years will again be in order this year for all except ushers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO DAY EXTENSION MADE FOR FRESHMAN JUBILEE TICKETS | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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