Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoulder, breadth of fore head, breadth of jaw. Other Justices break in to ask attorneys questions, but this one sits silently intent upon the argument, his square chin cupped in his palm, his elbow propped on the table before him. His light blue eyes are small, concentrated, penetrating. His dark brown hair, quickly parted on the left, looks slightly disarranged. He is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the junior member of the Court...
Lady Eleanor Smith, dark daughter of Lord Birkenhead, made public complaints, last week, when she heard that Gypsies were to be excluded this year from Epsom Downs during the running of the Derby. Lady Eleanor knows the Romany language, likes to visit Gypsy caravans. The ban was imposed for sanitary reasons and to prevent a neighborhood nuisance...
...publicity) Pulitzer Prize for the best novel of 1928 was unofficially revealed to be a novel called Victim and Victor, by a man named John Rathbone Oliver. Wise literary prophets had been forecasting winners and raising authorial hopes, but none had mentioned Victim and Victor. It was a literary dark horse blacker than night...
...This was no surprise to salmon packers, who know that every third or fourth year, for some mysterious reason, the "run" of salmon dwindles sharply. Important are these members of the salmon family: King, or Chinook (Pacific coast, bright, arterial red flesh, averages 22 Ibs.); Red or Sockeye (Alaskan, dark red flesh, 6 Ibs.) ; Coho or Silver (Pacific and Alaskan, light red flesh, 7 Ibs.); Pink or Humpback (Alaskan, pinkish flesh, 4 Ibs.); Chum or Keta (Alaskan, colorless flesh, 8 pounds). For every King, silver or Chum salmon that leaps into a can this spring there will leap (approximately) three...
...ancient, shady ancestry is the Devil. As Egypt's Serpent Apap, he crawled at dark by the Nile while flames shuddered in his thin trail. In Babylonia, even fools dared not prate of him when he was known as "the lady Nina." His was the god-defiance of Prometheus, the malice of Ahriman. Still as Siva he destroys...