Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conferring the Congressional Medal on Col. Lindbergh. A little while later, while the President was sitting to Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Wright of Cleveland for his portrait, the daughter of another President called at the White House-Miss Aleccia Elias Calles of Mexico City, with two friends.* Young Miss Calles, dark and dashing, was bubbling with "the wonderful news" and wanted to see President Coolidge at once. Unfortunately, diplomatic ritual prevented. There was no one present to introduce her properly. Secretary Everett Sanders was sorry, but had Major Domo John Hoover show the ladies through the White House...
Oklahoma, state of many Indians,* spent last fortnight in a mist of political metaphysics. Four members of the Legislature accused Governor Henry S. Johnston of not being Governor. They said his secretary, small, attractive, dark-haired, formidable Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, was "Governor in fact." They asked Governor Johnston to call a special meeting of the Legislature to investigate himself (TIME, Dec. 5). How an alleged non-Governor could convene the Legislature, the legislators did not explain. Perhaps they thought Mr. Johnston would know because among his reputed misdemeanors was taking an interest in things psychic. But Mr. Johnston gave...
...World-known Russian statesmen who have tried to lead an Opposition in the Communist party but were recently expelled from it for that high crime. These two are LEV DAVIDOVITCH TROTSKY and GRIGORY EVSEEVITCH ZINOVIEV. Their names have been among the best known in Soviet history and there are dark reasons why they may become so again. Of the 98 expelled, last week, three rank as at least second string great men in Russia: 1) Christian Rakovsky, recently recalled as Ambassador to France at the request of that nation, which feared him as a tireless fomenter of "The Revolution...
...found successes before: when she published her first novel, Dancers in the Dark (in 1922); when she sang in Italy last winter. In the Washington National Opera Festival, singing Mignon, she was only making her U. S. debut. When on two later evenings in the same week she equalled her achievement in the difficult mezzo-soprano of the first, newsgatherers jostled at the stage door. They learned that her writings had furnished the wherewithal for her musical education; that even now she was writing a play for famed David Belasco to produce and her fifth novel; that her real name...
...death. Spots of melodrama, blotches of theatrical emotion do less, to mar the story than to prove that sincere acting can make these defects seem trivial. Belle Bennett (whose reward for a fine performance in Stella Dallas has been a succession of mediocre roles) and Eve Southern (who wore dark hair and a fixed expression in The Gaucho) are competent to effect a more than satisfactory transposition of Martha Ostenso's bestselling, prize-winning fiction...