Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...
...Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities and delight...
Sixteenth Century. Orlando knelt in crimson breeches, offering the Queen a bowl of rose water before she dined. He saw her crabbed sickly hand flash with heavy jewels; she saw his dark curls bent so reverently, and that night deeded him the great monastic manor that had belonged to the Archbishop, then to Henry VIII. Orlando scribbled five-act tragedies, a dozen histories, a score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke...
...special grand jury which has been investigating the frauds, conspiracies and murders attendant upon Chicago's primary election last April, last week brought indictments of a police lieutenant, eight racketeers and a large, dark figure who had seemed destined to gain fame in the councils of the nation-Oscar DePriest, first Negro alderman of Chicago, nominee of the G. O. P. to succeed the late famed Martin Barnaby Madden in the House of Representatives. It was not the first time Mr. DePriest had been indicted. In 1916 he was accused of handling tainted money, but the charge languished...
...mention that she was a Negress. But she did refer to her service at Freedman's Hospital and her studies at Tuskegee Institute, both well-known Negro institutions. Her application was accepted; she went to Manhattan; she registered, was assigned to duty. Then someone complained that her dark presence was obnoxious. Sloane Maternity ousted...