Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who last week enabled them to talk to one another at a distance by means of curious, bell-ringing contraptions connected by wires; who showed them silent, black-and-white scenes of people walking, gesticulating, moving their mouths as in speech, upon a white sheet spread in a dark place; who demonstrated a still stranger spark-spitting apparatus they called a "radio," by which the white men said they talked with their kind far south in the U. S.; who capped all by fitting together on the beach monstrous yellow-backed mechanical birds with red-white-and-blue tails...
...real name Louis Fall) onetime (1922-23) light-heavyweight champion of the world, was lumbering home along a dark street in Manhattan last week, when he spied two men fisticuffing under a street light. Thinking to teach them a lesson, he banged their heads together. A knife flickered; Peacemaker Siki fell to the ground with a great wound in his cheek. The physician who stitched him together some hours later expressed doubt that the amazed Senegalese would ever fight again...
...half-mile in the fast time of 1:53 2/5; moreover, it was obvious that the U. S. combination had passed a word around in the locker-room: "Kill off Lowe." First Cutcheon set a parching pace. Lowe seemed tired. Haggerty replaced Cutcheon, looking over his shoulder at the dark-haired, the Arab-skinned Lowe, three yards behind. So they ran until 150 yards from the end. Then Lowe, as if he had strapped the wind to his ankles, ran past the red Haggerty, won the race...
...Hermit. His incest with his lovely daughter seemed perfectly pure and natural to him. He had a genius for love. Robust, red-faced, scar- cheeked, with naked lids' over his dark eyes, Savel the sawyer settled in a cave after his acquittal, dedicated himself effectively to the needs of the love-starved peasantry, healing chiefly by the epithet "dearest," pronounced with a great compassion...
...DARK LAUGHTER-Sherwood Anderson-Boni, Liveright. A love story in post-War Ohio...