Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King David"* might properly have pondered what his future is to be. Not much longer will the Empire rest content that he is without wife or heir. One may, with propriety, assume that last week the thoughts of David of Windsor turned repeatedly upon Lady Anne Maud Wellesley, 18, dark eyed and blooming daughter of the Marquis Douro, direct descendant of the great Duke of Wellington...
Shortly thereafter came scintillant Cecelia Gertrude Shere, waving dark locks, out of the West in quest of fame...
These unearthly creatures burrow into the dark recesses under, above, behind the visible serenity of the place, and turn switches, open and shut valves, carry around bulky objects and do all manner of queer things. They seem to know what they are doing, and there must be some system or order to their efforts, for the results are surprising...
...garish Tahitian fantasies of Paul Gauguin. He found the soft woods and streams of Brittany an exhausted subject. He lived, painted and died in the South Seas, where sunlight bursts like bombshells on labyrinthine foliage, showers lustrous patterns on voluptuous dark flesh...
Fisk and his partner-Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye-were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand...