Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, I'd keep the matter very dark,' he said. 'I'd burn the evidence. It's the most human thing I ever heard...
...witnesses. The automobile rolled over the State line into Massachusetts. It went to Rutland where it was hoped to arrest "Toots" Murray, who was reported to be acting as a guard to protect the Republican Senators from being kidnapped. Mr. Murray was not found, but suddenly in the dark watches of the night the Officers of the Massachusetts law descended upon the Officers of the Rhode Island...
...original Klan in the days following the Civil War, when it was ordered dissolved, it breathes all the mysterious and sinister significance of the "Invisible Empire," and swirls the reader along with it under its exciting black hoods and white sheets. It stops by the wayside to terrorize one dark-skinned Julius Caesar, self-styled "Apostle ob Sanotification," known to his rivals as "dat slue-footed hypercrite." But most of the time, horses gallop, blood flows, hero rescues, villain pursues, disguises disguise?all in the author's most approved manner and with the technique developed in his Birth...
...Certainly Macready needed all his alertness, coolness and skill in his hazardous exploit of last week. On a recent night flight from Columbus, Macready found his motor dead when passing over Dayton. The usual method of gliding to safety in some field or other was impossible in the pitch dark. With his altimeter reading between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, the pilot guided his plane to the outskirts of the town, to minimize danger to others, and stayed on board as long as he dared. He then unloosed his safety belt, crawled out on the wing, and jumped into...
...three o'clock on a dark June morning at Mitchell Field, U. S. Army's aerodrome at Mineola, L. I., Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan was awakened and informed by the meteorologist that he could attempt his dawn to dusk flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific...