Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoons on green lawns beneath deep-shading palm, pepper, eucalyptus and umbrella trees, the fragrance of summer all about us, and love the tonic warmth as one never could the sticky, muggy afternoons of the middle west, where I grew up. We keep our houses closed and cool and dark, and open them to the almost unfailing night breeze. We go cool and peacefully to sleep-as one does not in July and August in Iowa-and long before morning we grope for blankets...
Newton Diehl Baker, dark, clean-shaven, fond of classics and gardening, eloquent in speech, did lawful battle in a Cincinnati courtroom with Charles Evans Hughes, fair, bushy of beard, fond of animals, deliberate in speech. Mr. Hughes was attorney for Mrs. Josephine Scripps, of Miramar, Calif., who was suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes...
...Manhattan, next October. He will do business in a Park Avenue apartment, as unshop-like as possible. The sensation caused by this announcement was inferior only to that stirred some months ago, when M. Poiret appeared for the first time since boyhood with his face denuded of the dark, fascinating beard which every woman knew...
...trust question in relation to big business in order to aid in the formulation of the trust plank in the domestic platform of the club. He was prominent in the administration of President Wilson, and has been mentioned by a number of leading Democrats as a possible dark horse candidate for the next Presidency...
...Hall especially was accused of indifference, but it must have speedily organized a group of singers for it came to the fore and won the silver cup that year. Its submission enabled the Jubilee to be held that year on Wednesday, June 2. The famous traditional white flannels and dark coats were innovated as le dernier cri for the well-dressed man at the Jubilee...