Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James K. Polk, who was elected eleventh U. S. President in 1844. *John Quillin Tilson, who has served 14 years in the House, dark-eyed, shaggy of mustache, heavy of eyebrow, able...
...that the régime is crumbling, but it has long been crumbling, Ebert or no Ebert. The fact remains that a new President will soon be chosen. Two likely men are in the running; but such is the state of politics in Germany that there is many a dark horse that may run and canter home. And of the dark horses nothing can be prophesied, for even the ex-Imperial Princes may stand for election according to the Constitution...
...KEYS OF THE CITY-Elmer H. Davis-McBride ($2.00). Splay-jawed, hawk-nosed St. Elmo Pence stands for pep, punch and prosperity in Hollisburg, Hollis County, Ind. He has all the best property, none of the better instincts. Colonel Oliver Perry Morton Hollis and his dark, haughty daughter, Ruth, represent the town's historical background. They have the better instincts, but their property is bred out. A nice, crude, straightforward narrative is contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small...
...address in his hand and, as he says, "counts". As long as he doesn't cross a bridge, he knows that he isn't too far lost, and is content. He thinks the best prose from the U. S. recently is Don Marquis' great play, The Dark Hours...
...first place, was the 47 Workshop the most important thing in the college, after all? I do not here propose to criticise it, although I have read some of its productions and am talking not entirely in the dark. But I should like to ask whether the production of Slavically mournful, not quite "eqochmaking," plays is really of greater importance than, say, the foundation of a new scholarship or the sorely needed endowment of a laboratory or a professorship in one of the branches of the arts. Harvard is not an overwhelmingly rich college, over-endowed and able to spend...