Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charged with thunder and no man can tell when the first bolt of lightning will flash across the Mexican political sky, now dark with clouds...
Born in a dark sailors' boarding house in Front Street, her first place was with the Farleys, rich, etiolated, precise. Rollo Farley, the pallidly esthetic son of the house seduced her?she gave him the inspiration for his one great poem. Then he got engaged to a girl of his own class who had a head like a beautiful egg, and forgot Bertha. Bertha moved on?she was always moving on. She bore a son to Rollo?a son who was adopted at the age of two weeks or so by the Bixbys of Detroit. As soon...
...that made The Broad Highway and The Amateur Gentleman two of the most thoroughly refreshing of "escape" books. I met Mr. Farnol when he was in America two years ago to report the Dempsey- Carpentier fight. He has changed in appearance since then. Today he seemed a quiet, stocky, dark little man in a dark suit, peering through thick glasses, with shoes that were rugged and might have been prescribed for the Boy Scouts. Before, as I recall, he wore splendid shirts and vivid suits, and his manner was boisterous in the extreme. Both times I liked him immensely...
Maugham is dark, pale - with eager, somewhat quizzical eyes. He is detached. I cannot imagine his being perturbed. His speech is slow and his anecdotes are brilliantly effective. He strikes me as a man who sits outside of life watching with almost cat-like eagerness. He understands life too well, he is top aware of events to treat them with tenderness. Perhaps this is because he was at one time a doctor -or, at least, took a degree in medicine...
...passion and an ability to analyze it- always cynically. It was interesting to watch him the other evening with Charlie Chaplin-Chaplin, mobile, eager, gay, as vivid as a flame and as naive as Peter Pan, yet somehow as subtle as life itself; Somerset Maugham, bending toward him, quiet, dark, reserved, cynical, observant, interpretative. They are both geniuses-they almost represent the two types of genius-spontaneous creation of life and analytical sounding of the human mind...