Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growth of cities was a slow change, once. Generations lived and died and the wolves looked down from the hills at night, at the closed gates of the city and its lighted houses or dark streets. Armies rode out and returned, victorious or defeated; plagues descended, disappeared; a king died or a traveler came from far away; gods were discovered and forgotten and the people in the city lived in the same houses, the wolves still stood on the hills at night, looking at the same city, the same walls. Cities are built more quickly now, without walls, in places...
...Toronto last week one Norman Douglas pulled at his dark brown hair. It came off his head, a wig. Exposed was a skull cap, like the Pope's. Only, instead of being white it was dark green. Norman Douglas put his hands carefully...
...current supplied 28 Ontario towns. The accident made them dark...
Between his summer home on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., and his brokerage offices in Manhattan, Richard F. Hoyt commutes at 100 miles an hour. He uses a Loening amphibian biplane, sits lazily in a cabin finished in dark brown broadcloth and saddle leather, with built-in lockers containing pigskin picnic cases. Pilot Robert E. Ellis occupies a forward cockpit, exposed to the breezes. But occasionally Broker Hoyt wishes to pilot himself. When this happens he pulls a folding seat out of the cabin ceiling, reveals a sliding hatch. Broker Hoyt mounts to the seat, opens the hatch, inserts...
...only identification was Cook County's check for $84.62. The owner, identified by the paunchy landlord, was Abe Wise. This Jew locked his bedroom door, touched his "gat" fondly, but offered Marry the hospitality of excellent bootleg, and introduced Josephine Ruska of the husky voice and dark caressing eyes. Marry fell promptly in love, and as promptly forgot the mysterious Jew. Long evenings he spent in the park loving Josephine's cooing chatter and warm caresses. Long days he tramped the streets bearing his optimistic letter of recommendation from the small town paper. Big town papers, unimpressed, turned...