Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shakespeare might have made it up-but only after a short course in modern publicity methods. Wealthy Manhattan Attorney Walter R. Herrick didn't want his 20-year-old daughter Eileen to marry a dark-haired cafe socialite named George Lowther III. Romeo Lowther, a Yale man, would not be stopped. He hired a lawyer, made Parent Herrick produce his sheltered daughter in court, announced that they would elope if he had to get a fire department tower truck backed up against the Herrick apartment, finally collaborated with the tabloid Daily News to spirit Eileen off and marry...
...truck ground to a halt on Rio's pleasant Rua Bartholomeu Mitre, children looked up from their play. After the workmen had unloaded the dark, moist sand into the street and gone away, the kids swarmed over the sandpile, pelting each other with sand and small pebbles...
Maurice (Hamlet) Evans, resting at Tupper Lake, N.Y. from soliloquies, suffered a little outrageous fortune at his summer home-he stumbled off the porch in the dark and cracked two ribs...
...accurately ascertained by this reporter. The wine is good, though, and the dress shops and perfume counters again bear testimony to that peculiar aspect of French genius. Thanks to the industrious, if not too successful efforts of the dye industry, France today is a nation of blonde women and dark men--certainly an interesting biological phenomenon. Paris, August...
...capitalists. The fabulous Ridge of the White Waters (The Rand) has produced over 400 million ounces of gold in the past half century. But while American businessmen were permitted to admire the bonanza, and even to purchase British gold stocks, they were always denied any substantial holdings. The Dark Continent's gold mining was strictly a British-South African show, no uitlanders wanted...