Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matters looked dark for the young woman until her counsel thought of a stunning defense. "Are we," he asked, "less civilized than Europeans? In all western countries it [arm linking] is the accepted custom." The case was quashed...
Among the youngest (the oldest is 48), 33-year-old Andre Fougeron is a dark, wiry ex-infantryman who escaped from...
...slim, dark-haired youth, minus a leg, wheeled himself in, then hopped nimbly up & down steps on crutches. "You probably read about Harold in the papers," said Deaver. "He's the boy who was smashed against a storefront by an automobile last fall, the day after he joined the Marines. When the surgeons amputated, I told them, 'Just give me six inches of stump below the knee; that's all I want.' When he gets his artificial leg, you won't know he has a disability...
...garish street life, the huddled, gabby tenement humanity. But, endangered by a lot of song-&-dance distractions, the story builds much more strongly by leaning on plot rather than people. And it finds time for enough that is human and humorous. Composer Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark) scores with all his lighter songs and with some of his romantic ones. And there are good people to sing them-notably, opera singer Polyna Stoska, whose beautiful soprano voice is a treat for Broadway. What is more, most of the singers...
...among gates, his unhappy life as an outcast obviously due to an abnormal mind. Further research has determined the cause of his twisted character to be a midnight accident with a heavy truck gone berserk. Misshapen and bitter Wigglesworth swore to close the Yard to all suspicious characters after dark. At last the mystery of Harvard's iron curtain has been revealed. Freshmen, over sympathetic to the woes of all men, will no longer be afraid of gates, and most important of all, perhaps the Wigglesworth gate will yield to the salve of psychiatry. Already there are indications that...