Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer living in the dark ages before the time of Florence Nightingale, and nursing standards and ideals have kept apace with, if not excelled, those of the medical profession. A perusal of a history of nursing or a visit to any of our modern hospitals would enlighten you regarding one of the greatest professions in the world, and prevent another such faux...
...There is Norris. He is a Progressive Republican, perhaps the ablest of the insurgent group-now that LaFollette is dead. He keeps the regulars hopping. That dark, short young man over there, immaculately dressed, is young LaFollette who succeeded his father. He is a newcomer in the Senate; so he has not done much...
...much to say on many subjects. He too is very learned and fond of classical allusions, but he can be fierce at times. James Couzens, millionaire, isn't here. He has been ill of late. When he is in top form, he makes a formidable opponent. That solid, dark little man is Robinson, nominal leader of the Democrats. He is a downright fellow. Of late a good deal of his time has been taken in putting through Administration measures-the World Court and the tax bill. There is Walsh; he is the Democrat's hanging prosecutor, only...
Queen Paras (as she may now call herself) stepped upon the shore, friendly but shy. She wore a red and yellow dress and over it a cloak of dark blue silk. Her hair was tied in braids; she wore no bangles. One hundred gypsies met her at the pier; one hundred gypsies escorted her, with shouts and cymbals, to be crowned a queen in Manhattan...
...Since the Great War we have had a tidal wave of occultism. Spiritualism- with all its paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect...