Word: darke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gauthier is the sort of person who arouses curiosity and imagination. She is a little French Canadian, dark, eager eyed and sprightly. Her movements are rapid and unaffected. A glance at her reveals a singular flame of honesty and intelligence. She sings with a pretty voice and a simply astounding amount of understanding, artistry and grace. With the sort of music she sings, a mere correct intonation of the ear-confounding sounds is an astonishment. In the ensemble of impressions, this little woman wears a strangely exotic...
...meet Mrs. Rinehart in her Washington home is to see a hostess of charm, and to hear a raconteuse of ability. Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she has the rare gift of dramatizing fact so that it has the thrill of a mystery story. Dark, faultlessly dressed, with graceful nervous hands and the deep eyes that are at once penetrating and sympathetic, she is a beautiful and a forceful woman...
...running in the above order, will encounter some powerful opposition among the 13 other teams entered in the event. Among the strongest groups which will compete in the race are those from Princeton, Penn State, Cornell, and Georgetown, while the Chicago team will appear in the position of the "dark horse", not much being known of its possibilities. The complete list of entires in this realy is: Brown, Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, Holy Cross, Kansas, Navy, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Pittsburg, Princeton, and Syracuse. Although then men competing in the hammer throw this afternoon have not been announced, Marshall...
...people caught into the mystery of life. Schnitzler writes always with the utmost distinction; but the range of his work varies little from certain artistic and social circles in Vienna. THE HOUSE OF THE SECRET? Claude Ferrere?Dutton ($3.50). Three infamous old men live like cruel spiders in a dark house in a rocky ravine. They are the possessors of an appalling secret. A French captain penetrates to their retreat. They demonstrate to him an experiment in the latest methods of magnetism and hypnotism. Through the course of the action horror creeps nearer and nearer. Spirits summon a man bound...
...Hearst's Cosmopolitan for May feature an allegedly true story entitled Mercy. "One day a chilling shadow fell," says the blurb. "While Mrs. Wills, with her two small sons, was away on a visit to her parents, the Reverend Robert N. Wills disappeared-and with him the pretty dark-eyed organist!" Then the ad takes on bolder type: "A story of a once prominent minister and his life expiation for a moment's madness." "A story that never got into the newspapers because a whole city held its secret in- violate." Ray Long edits the Cosmopolitan...