Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark young man, attired in pajamas of kingfisher-blue silk, smoking, with mannered nonchalance, a brown cigaret, was reclining among the pillows of a luxurious seabed. He responded amiably to their questions. Native American music . . . what did they mean by that? Most people, of course, meant the banal, monotonous ki-yiing of the American Indians?an absurd misconception. Indian music came from Asia. It is in no respect native. The music the rhythms of which are implicit in the movement of modern U. S. life has never been written. . . . Will jazz be its medium? . . . Perhaps...
Exhibition. At the Grand Central Palace opened the exhibition of "the Architectural and Allied Arts." Every conceivable material, furnishing utility for the construction or adornment of a covered structure was thei exhibited by its manufacturer. Lifted high on a dark altar, in a tapestried chamber still as the Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every...
...uniform dress for all Freshmen will be white flannels and dark coats. The ushers will wear dinner jackets...
...only a few months since Caillaux, a hawk-nosed, bald-pated man with an aristocratic bearing and a pair of dark, shrewd, inquisitive eyes, was liberated from the banishment to which he was sentenced in 1920 by the Senatorial High Court (TIME, Dec. 1). He immediately went to Paris and began forthwith to pull political strings. He reminded the enthusiastic Radicals and Socialists who greeted him as a prodigal son that he was and always has been a moderate Republican. It was a shrewd bid for power, for Caillaux knew that he could never appear before the Senate with...
...cries out today against sex books reveals himself as a strangler in the march of progress, who is manifetly far behind the best, enlightened thought and knowledge of the age. Sex is no longer a dark forbidden subject? hidden, yet finding its way surreptiously and smuttily into every talk and revenging itself by tragedies of ignorance...