Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They warned against amateur examination of the solar phenomenon without proper protection for the eyes such as a pack of dark photographic negatives or smoked glasses about the capacity of a Mount Vernon bottle...
...scenes, and the genuineness of the play's problem, the fact remains that either the problem could not be written into a three-act play or merely that Hart was incapable of doing so. Failing that, he has fallen back on the formula which made his "Lady in the Dark" such a success, the dream sequence. Thus with the aid of four (or is it five?) voyages into the tortured unconscious of Christopher Blake, Hart manages to pad out his play to the conventional length. Although they try mightily to be alternately charming and terrifying, the dreams are almost without...
...Freshman Union this evening of all Freshmen interested in a photographic club now taking form under the auspices of the Union Committee and the Student Council. Replacing the pre-war group pushed out of the Union by the Navy, the new club will be provided with a complete dark-room for the use of its members...
...national flower of Bolivia is the kantuta, bell-shaped and scarlet. The Incas said the flower first blossomed from the blood dropped by a Virgin of the Sun God, beloved by a prince and slain by the trick of a jealous witch. Spring came cold and dark to lofty Bolivia, but nobody recalled more beautiful kantutas. It was, Bolivians said, as if all the blood shed this year were reappearing as flowers...
...rotund New Yorker who is now her business adviser. Both were already married,† but they got divorces and were married by the Mayor of Weehawken, N.J. in October 1938. Then came the hardest times of Helen Traubel's life. She and Bill were broke. In a dark two-room West syth Street apartment near Carnegie Hall they cooked occasional lamb stews, sometimes had to scrape up money for food by cashing in on their empty milk and soda-pop bottles. They visited the Central Park zoo, and for evenings out, walked down to 42nd Street...