Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dais a thin blond man in a choker collar made a loud rapid speech and a short dark man swore to be a good Vice-President. After a tremendous throat-clearing a minister prayed and the short dark man read a speech from a little leather notebook. Mr. Coolidge listened with one hand up to his face. When the speech was over everybody clapped and helter-skeltered out of doors to the front steps of the Capitol...
...regime has begun. The brilliant banners that waved along the Avenue are already forgotten in the dark cellars along with the other relics of the inauguration. The visitors have departed, for now the overture is ended and the citizenry settles down to watch the drama proper. The optical nerves of the nation, the newspapers, have sent their outstanding reporters to the scene; foreign governments watch the proceedings through the eyes of discerning diplomats, while the unemployed cultivate westernisms as they hopefully peep through the presidential windows...
...President Coolidge did receive, last week, a telegram worded exactly as above except that THE DENVER POST was substituted for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE and the self-descriptive blurb was LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE MISSOURI RIVER AND THE PACIFIC COAST. The telegram was signed by that dark, daring Desperate Desmond of Journalism, Frederick G. Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, onetime riverboat gambler...
...wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite de la Motte) who, drooping like a flower, dies in his arms. First swordsman of France, D'Artagnan snatches from the dark tower by the river the betrayed king with his sad, muzzled face. Best shot: the four singing swashbucklers returning from...
...last week's audience was slim, dark, tense Deems Taylor, who wrote the music. He was, of course, besieged and besought by questioners, because after the Henchman's premiere in 1927 the Metropolitan commissioned Native Taylor to write another native opera. What about that other opera? asked Deems Taylor's friends and the press...