Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of objections on aesthetic grounds--that John Harvard is a bit too high or a little too low or what not--his new position in front of University Hall creates an unusually pleasing and dignified effect Those skeptics who seek for some dark design on the part of the authorities in ending the Founder's "splendid isolation" in the Delta ought to find in the artistic success of the adventure a satisfactory answer. Although it must be apparent that while in the old, ruthless days, the contiguity of the statue to Memorial inspired coats of red paint...
...Story. A loverless woman discovers her hero at dead of night passionately embracing her sister who has had many lovers. Behind that climatical night was the history of many dark things...
...stories that would make a ghost blanch with horror and wrap his white sheets closer about him for protection. Disinterred corpses, supernatural beings, voices from the grave, razors dripping blood, coffins that won't stay underground-till the palsied reader dare not make a dash to negotiate that dark hall which leads to bed and safety. One is left with the conviction that Author Benson must still be sitting up somewhere. How did he ever dare go to bed after writing...
...years thereafter, Miss Farrar, dark and passionate, made only concert appearances, while the fair-haired, blue-eyed, milky-armed Jeritza held the central position in the Metropolitan's female galaxy...
...could change our habits so as to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning and go to bed at 6 o'clock in the evening, we would be able to eliminate the difficulties that prevent power houses from using surplus heat as light when it is dark, and as heat when it is cold...