Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark, pitch dark, save for one shaft of light boring through the crowded room. This light played on a slim white mast, played on a miniature British Union Jack fluttering slowly aloft. An unseen band struck up God Save the King...
...crossed, shapes passed, cubes collided, vortices spun down through hell, sucking the sight with them, and the earth, like a small ball knitted by music out of cloud and fire, whirled voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with their eyes. When an enthusiastic dolt began to clap, they hissed him down as if he had interrupted the first movement of a sonata. But at the concert's end they, too, clapped long for Inventor Wilfred...
...favored points near the centre of the belt. During this brief period will be visible the rare sight of the sun's corona, ejections of gas driven out some millions of miles from the sun's seething fireball. This corona casts a ghostly light and exhibits itself around the dark rim of the moon, a glow from the sun at the inner ring, radiating outward in soft tints like a halo. Meanwhile, the sky is darkened and the stars are visible. Near the moon, and west of it, will appear a group of three planets, Venus nearest, then Mercury...
...fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Painter Zuloaga of Spain would not talk to newspapermen about Spanish politics (TIME, Dec. 29). He talked of the paintings he was about to exhibit in the U. S., and particularly he talked of a dark young man whom he has painted three times?Juan Belmonte. Juan is a bullfighter. He is now in Peru, taking the Inca-fortune that is his due for being a bullfighter?the best bullfighter in all Spain. Unnoticed in Manhattan, where he stopped on his way a few weeks ago, Juan's advent in Peru nearly caused a national holiday...
Argentine Love is another of those tense little international affairs with Ricardo Cortes in this corner representing the Argentine and James Rennie in that corner representing the U. S. The prize is Bebe Daniels. Stiletto fights, dark Spanish threats and flat silk hats are dealt out to the performers by Director Alan Dwan. Follow six rounds of pretty hot going. Kid Cortez is finally killed and Kid Rennie marches back to the U. S. with the prize under his arm. Witnesses call it a good fight...