Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Also in dark letters you print the word "culprit." What should have followed this was a description of Petlura. He was the guilty person, the criminal. Instead you write so ignorantly or purposely of Schwartzbard. You gave the honor of a picture in your magazine to Schwartzbard and call him "murderer." There in that place should have been another, that was declared so by the most impartial and fairest court in the world...
Mordance Hall is owned by Richard Pride, who suffers from a mania for vicarious adventure. Having exhausted all that the modern world can extend in the way of romance, he turns to the dark chamber of his mind, from which he would draw the dark memories of the past. His wife, Miriam, combines the pleasant foibles of satyriasis and astrology, while Janet, her daughter, is a nympholept. Hugh, Pride's secretary and Miriam's lover, and Sally, the West African negress, addicted to voo-doo, complete this attractive menage. But we should mention Tod, the giant police-dog, whose essentially...
Much has been said and written about what is wrong with the modern novel, but "The Dark Chamber" exhibits two of its greatest defects. The irrepressible desire to wallow in the morbidities of sex is one. The other is the continual effort to attain a "precious" style. Cline's efforts run to the use of esoteric words and a "lyric" prose...
...course, this is just his personal opinion, and doesn't appear in the stories he writes. Hot tips on "dark-haired Woburn boys" and "phantom half backs" are his specialty, but while his typewriter is busy clicking off these potent concoctions. Ted is not very much fooled, and casual observers may note a bulge in his left cheek as he builds a second string tackle and third string guard with a "likely-looking monkey wrench in Yale's classy juggernaut...
...said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into the past, and see what he can find; like the oysterman who drops his rake through the dark waters with the hope of bringing to light at least a few of his stolid prey and perhaps sometimes a rare gem, or like that other, humbler artisan who enriches--but then that is beside the point...