Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...female clerk of Georgia's Supreme Court stepped out into the mob of newsmen and politicos milling in a dark hallway of the State Capitol. Trembling with excitement, she squeaked: "No shoving, please." When the mob shoved anyway, a man shouted anxiously: "Don't shove. It's 5-to-2 for Thompson...
...Bosun. For all her understandable boredom in South Africa, Elizabeth has inherited from her parents the instinctive ability to, do the right thing. At a Girl Guide (Girl Scout) review in dark Basutoland, it was she who spotted a bus full of Guides kept well apart from the rest. Despite the anguished cries of officials, she promptly went over to talk to them. They were the Girl Guide troop from a leper colony. Next day everyone in South Africa knew what the Princess had done...
...Abbott, 47, "whose affability makes him the most popular of ministers"; 3) Health Minister Paul Martin, 43, "whose . . . eloquence and ambition make him a candidate"; 4) Agriculture Minister James G. Gardiner, 63, "a first-class organizer"; 5) External Affairs Under Secretary Lester ("Mike") Pearson, 49, who "leads all the dark horses by manylengths...
...newcomer to Dublin, Mary treasured a cigaret butt Yeats had thrown away, went to every performance of his plays, watched awestruck as he passed on the street, "strange looking, with dark, sorcerer's eyes." Later, when they became acquainted, she found him rather a snob, affecting the "grand air of a Renaissance prince" and sometimes even failing in "ordinary good manners." But "I never knew a greater mind or a greater man, one with such all-round endowments...
Chamber of Horrors. Lucy FitzGerald chose to live in London, in a house whose front windows looked out on a zoo, the back windows on a cemetery. The dim living room was papered in dark green-a "chamber of horrors," groaned Poet FitzGerald, "[in which my wife looks] like Lucretia Borgia." FitzGerald found "a sort of consolation" in "some curious Infidel and Epicurean Tetrastichs by a Persian of the Eleventh Century-as Savage against Destiny ... as Manfred-but mostly of Epicurean Pathos of this kind -'Drink-for the Moon will often come round to look for us in this...