Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday about dark," he confessed, "I told him we would go down on Water Street in East Macon and lay for a liquor car. He went along all right, thinking we were going to hijack somebody...
With the sunset gone and darkness settling down upon Bury Hill, the master of Arundel Castle had still to set the final signal of his coming of age. Just outside the castle grounds at a bald spot on the hill there towered 40 feet into the night a pile of 3,000 faggots cut from Arundel copses, woodsmen had guarded the pile from pranksters and now watched with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties...
...performance and his secrets to John Mullholland of Manhattan, brilliant sleight-of-handman, lecturer, student of world-wide magical history. Magician Mullholland was invisibly assisted by Dr. Shirley L. Quimby, apparatus expert, professor of physics at Columbia University. Dr. Hooker's guests were led from his dark panelled home through a small grassy courtyard, into a private chemical laboratory. On the second floor was a tiny impromptu "theatre" which seated about 20 people. The walls were lined with books, many of them on magic...
CRESCENDO-BEING THE DARK ODYSSEY OF GILBERT STROED-Ethel Mannin-Doubleday, Doran...
...broke, peddling his talents. North was 20, a poet, storyteller, student; Dean was 63, face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been an adventurer on the continent truly his race's for 16,000 years. How much dark embroidery he has put on his life story, it is impossible, and unimportant, to tell. It is a cracking good story...