Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which kept the children awake so many nights last winter. "Whispering Wires" is less gruesome, more natural, and far more structurally perfect than its predecessors. We feel also that the author shows admirable rstraint in keeping his finger off the electric light switch. There is something gruesome about a dark stage, and frankly we don't like it. It makes us feel as if the man who was with that girl we thought we knew had taken out his penknife. Fortunately for us there was only one short black intermission. The rest of the time we sat back contentedly...
...radio speech of last Saturday Aside from spoiling his affectionate nickname of "strong, silent, Cal," he has enlarged the sources from which quotations may be drawn by adding Lewis Carroll to the Bible and Shakespeare. Since his speech, more- over, the Democrats and Progressives are no longer in the dark as to his strength. Previously unknown, it is now being estimated from the force of his long boarded, but now freely given entrance. His reserve was the fountain-head of his strength, confirming his supporters in the conviction that he saw all that was going on, and could...
...been turned down, yet still the curtain does not go up. At the American Bankers' Convention, Mr. Dwight W. Morrow was down on the program for an address entitled International Loans. Suddenly Mr. Morrow found he could not be present after all. Several thousand bankers, left in the dark, are more curious than ever...
...reason for the innovation is the fear that on dark days a large crowd, pouring down the narrow stairways, might cause a few injuries...
...last the great day arrived. Each team lined up with eleven men in the first game. The McGill men appeared dressed after the English fashion and consequently made a much better impression than did the University eleven whose members appeared on the field attired in a dark pair of trousers, a white undershirt, which had the advantage of ripping when seized, and a magenta handkerchief tied upon the head as was traditional with the crews. The clothing survived the first match which, being played under the Harvard rules, was not as rough as the second played under the McGill Rugby...