Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that of blindfolding the mule who pumps the water or of putting electric lights in the hen-house. He plans to put his bees, after they have fondly and hopefully gathered a store of honey during the summer in Washington, into a box and, keeping them literally in the dark as to his nefarious intentions, allow them to hibernate trustfully, secure in the knowledge of work well-done. Then he will ship them to Australia where, when they are aroused, they will again smell summer and start to make more honey, under the impression, although unable to explain that tired...
There was holly in the Rev. Mr. Holmes's church during Christmas week, and some special music on Sunday, but nothing in the way of a carol service. On Christmas Day, the church was dark...
...actress, changed her name from Lucille Le Sueur to Joan Crawford after a magazine contest organized to pick a name for her; that she danced for a while at Harry Richman's Club, Manhattan, has won 26 loving cups in dancing competitions; is a good swimmer; has dark hair and brown eyes; is 5 ft. 4 in. high, and weighs...
...Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come in the second movement dated for the Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches of old Negro songs, of "Old Folks at Home," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Hail Columbia," "John Brown's Body," the "Battle...
...horrific of which was the Black Death which scourged Europe in the middle of the Fifteenth Century. When Boccaccio's characters fled Florence in 1438 and spent their exile telling the stories of the Decameron, they thus escaped a swift, nauseous blight which, so the tales run, made dark convulsions of men's faces, twisted tortures of their bodies...