Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman of 83 stepped last week into the White House, which used to be his home as a young man. He came to attend the hanging of a portrait of his mother, the first of her to be hung there?the portrait of a dark lady in a crinoline hoopskirt and drop-shoulder gown with a wreath in her hair. The scene of the hanging was in the oval room on the ground floor, under the famous Blue Room used for formal receptions. The gentleman was Robert Todd Lincoln. At his request the portrait of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln had been...
...despite the curiosity likely to be aroused, it is probable that the "Forum" will soon conclude that it, like the philosopher, is "looking in a dark cellar for a black cat which isn't there". The real success of the contest will rather be found in the mere fact of its existence. For, although Diogenes never found the honest man, he proved that one could earnestly seek him. Thus in throwing athwart the mists, the silhouette of a thinker, the "Forum" will, perhaps, have more success in broadcasting a thoughtful method of approach to argument, than in clarifying specific terms...
...Photographic board will furnish cameras to its candidates and does not require any previous experience. Candidates will be afforded the opportunity of learning the technique of dark-room work, as well as the routine of taking pictures...
...country seemed to go quietly about its business. Optimists did not find it necessary to yodel glad tidings from the housetops nor yet to whistle in the dark. No "boom" was on, but pessimism was conspicuously dormant. The measure of distribution-car loadings- stayed high. The measures of demand and production-shipments and orders-were in good volume. The measures of volume-and-price -bank clearings-kept their level. Through the lens that is Wall Street, quickened activity could be observed in several industries that have drowsed of late-notably oil, copper, sugar, textiles...
...toothbrushes, writing their complicated little wills, guarding them from and for their women. Through labyrinths of official tape, thickets of superior and subordinate officers' personalities, swamps of physical obstacles, weather, food, transportation, equipment, his mind and nerves are shown maintaining their stability, and threading at the same time the dark jungles of his own inward life. Over all is the shadow of the major obscenity in the trenches. ... A casualty with half a face, air-bombed, bubbles red in his lap. . . . The half-face obsesses him. . . . "But the thing is to be able to stick to the integrity of your...