Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slender, mild-mannered, long-nosed man whom Mayor Walker had called to the most difficult post in any city administration f after he had made a good record as Commissioner of Accounts. There was no intimation that he was not doing his honest best, but the Rothstein case contained dark dangers for Tammany Hall. The city's Republicans began talking about putting up a strong candidate to run against Mayor Walker next year. It became obvious that "for the good of the service," i.e. Mayor Walker's political welfare, Commissioner Warren would be obliged to resign...
Artist Arno was christened Curtis Arnoux Peters. He is a robust, dark fellow, as conservative in appearance and dress as a discreet haberdashery poster. In 1922 he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where he was voted "Most Musical" and "In Worst with the Faculty." Then he took his banjo to Yale, found plenty of pianos there, alternately drew for the Yale Record and devised original syncopation. At the end of his freshman year he left college, subsequently studied at the Yale art school and Manhattan's Art Students League for a period of a month apiece...
Artist Arno, no publicist, discourages the inquisitive by mingling truth with legend. "My art studies," he states, "have been principally pursued in dark alleys. ... I met with overnight success which ended the next morning. ... I have an oil painting in the Yale permanent collection, where no one will ever see it. ... At the age of three I was seduced by an old lady with a long grey beard...
Aviation. To the pilot, aviation may mean a job, a salary. To the pedestrian, it may mean dark specks droning toward the horizon. To the entrepreneur, it means stocks, incorporations, earnings, mergers, an infant industry for skilled hands to shape. One such shaping took form last week with the incorporation of United Aircraft and Transport, Inc. A holding company, it will own all stock of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (Wasp, Hornet motors), Chance Vought Corp. (Corsair planes) Boeing Airplane and Transport Co. (manufacturers and transporters). Capitalization: 1,000,000 shares 6% preferred, par $50; 2,500,000 common. President: William...
...through Italy, put the tale of the birth of the Babe into homely ballad form, the better to win simple hearts. Over the Alps they went, throughout the World, singing of the sweet mystery of Bethlehem. Their songs lingered behind them. The Spanish peasant added episodes out of his dark Moorish imagination. In one group of Spanish carols the three wise men become gypsies, who read the palms and tell the fortunes of Jesus, Mary, Joseph. In Germany an ancient custom still endures, in some old-world villages: that of singing carols from the church towers...