Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paddock gate and moved up the midway to the barrier. Some walked quietly and lightly, with the jockeys sitting up high to save their backs even in this short walk; others skittered sideways, excited by the sight of other horses, by the crowd (250,000) that showed like a dark ocean along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked English, French, American jumpers, lined...
...Dutch-French. By birth, he is Danish, having been born at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands, U. S. territory). His first name is the Greek for "life-strength." By his own efforts, he is a naturalized American. A touch of World War heroism becomes his dark, tall, military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first, but soon branched into...
...passion for the unspeakably lovely heroine (Dolores Del Rio). But she is properly enamored of a poor but handsome prospector (Ralph Forbes), who hopes some day to give her a house with 100 windows. He suffers life and near death and blizzard, finally finds gold, comes back to save dark Dolores from the clutches of Mr. Locasto. There is a gorgeously gory fight which ends when the hero prospector hits Mr. Locasto with a kerosene lamp, sending him to a flaming death. The hero swoons and Dolores rescues him from the burning, falling, wicked dance hall. They forget the ashes...
...bailiff's son, purer than Galahad, bolder than Robin Hood, an unruly crusader against the Spanish governor. For peace the blonde niece of the governor married this leatherface. Set in a gentle glow of sentiment are mild bearded Spaniards spearing Flemish guards, and Flemish guards wetting Flanders fields with dark Spanish blood. And then Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss...
...HODGE AND MR. HAZARD-Elinor Wylie-Knopf ($2.50). "When Mr. Hazard was forty years old, he decided to revisit England. . . ." Arriving there, he proceeded immediately to have an attack of influenza, during the course of which he stalked angrily about the town of London, frightening children with his dark and troubled eyes. Then, in May, he went to Gravelow and met the Huntings, Allegra and Penserosa, daughters, and Clara, their mother. These provided him with a momentary haven from the assaults of a world which he could not completely fathom, and which, by 1833 no longer admired his wise fancies...