Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles a little compass at its end. His collar stands out from his spare neck...
...Petite Chaumiere, or The Little Thatched Cottage-since its name is international-was the scene of a notable saturnalia last week. La P'tite Chaumiere is indeed always well to the fore among the obscure but fashionable Parisian resorts of sophisticates who seek the dark, steep and tortuous streets ascending Montmartre when the hour is really too advanced for one to be seen elsewhere. As a novelty, La Petite Chaumiere combined the twin appeals of Sadism and Inversion, produced a "ballet" re-enacting the celebrated events of the recent Mesmin Case at Bombon. (TIME...
Strategem. A comic touch was added by the fact that the mercenaries "mined" the river elaborately with "large dark objects" which were later declared to be not real mines but dummies intended to intimidate the credulous...
Most of these houses had damp dark halls. The stairs and bannisters could not be trusted. No tollets or baths were to be found. There was a musty, pungent, unhealthy odor permeating the whole atmosphere...
...sometime U. S. ambassador to Russia and Austria) met Count Joseph Gyzicki (Austrian-Pole) in St. Petersburg and Vienna diplomatic life, marrying him in 1904.** She has long adorned and stimulated the chic milieu of which she writes. Photographs released to the public prints reveal her as an attractive, dark beauty well on the mentionable side of 35, posing in silks beside sophisticated bookshelves, cigaret in hand, large black eyes bent upon the beholder from beneath a high, thoughtful brow...