Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence, peace's little men watched the instantaneous, incredible mushroom, the dark spurts of universal power, the shimmering bright column of the stem, the wall of ship-engulfing water. In silence, they left the theater...
Molotov, one of the most important figures of the mid-20th Century, began his real life in a dark cellar in Kazan where he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolshevik faction). At 19 he was exiled to the Arctic (30 years later he jailed the policeman who had arrested him). By 1912 he was helping Joseph Stalin to edit a small sheet called Pravda, and by 1917 he had risen to a dizzy revolutionary height where Lenin himself noticed Molotov; Lenin called him "the best file clerk in Russia...
Married. Moss Hart, 41, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (You Can't Take It With You, Lady in the Dark, The Man Who Came to Dinner); and Kitty Carlisle, 30, musical-comedy star (Three Waltzes), cinemactress (She Loves Me Not, A Night at the Opera); both for the first time; in New Hope...
Jones, a well-to-do former Hollywood lumber executive, looks like the epitome of all the crotchety, middle-aged men in dark glasses and white flannels who hang around junior tennis tournaments. Officially, he is secretary of the Southern California Tennis Association; actually, he is dictator of his region's junior tennis. Jones decides which youngsters are invited to the important tournaments, which are sent on all-expense-paid tennis trips. (Most of the revenue comes from the big Pacific-Southwest tournament; occasionally Jones quietly helps boys out of his own pocket.) Among his ex-prot...
What further spread the grin on the lean, long face of Bill Allen, who took over his job last fall during Boeing's dark days, was his unshakable belief that the Stratocruiser is the big commercial plane of the immediate future. Reasons...