Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin arrived in Manhattan last week on his first visit to the U.S. mainland since his inauguration as Puerto Rico's first elected governor. With his handsome wife and two dark-eyed daughters, he went to the Hotel Plaza, where he had no sooner checked in than he headed for the kitchen. "New York kitchens," he explained, "are always full of Puerto Ricans. They make the salads, cut the meat, wash the dishes." The Plaza's kitchen help were appropriately enthusiastic; several elderly women fell on Muñoz' neck...
...seance continued. Once it looked as though Mussolini's own ghost had returned when one Luigi Filosa, a Fascist henchman, got up to speak; Filosa was short and bald, stood squarely with his hands on his hips and stuck out his lower lip in characteristic Mussolinian truculence. From dark corners of the auditorium drifted snatches of Fascist hymns. A philosophy professor, who shouted: "Democracy is a fraud!" was arrested by the watchful secret service men. The hysterical speakers babbled on. Yelled a woman teacher: "They come, these Americans, these ignorant bushmen, to show us-the heirs of Michaelangelo...
...their stately, rambling hacienda house, ringed by a 15-foot brick-and-adobe wall, servants rush out at the toot of a horn to open the wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...
Businessmen, anxiously scanning the skies for a clue to the economic weather, saw more dark clouds ahead. Industry was still cutting back production; the Federal Reserve Board's production index had dropped in May to 174 (v. 192 a year before) and had gone on down in June to an estimated 170. Unemployment was still rising. In June, with more than one million extra job-seekers out of school and college, it rose to 3,788,000, the highest in seven years...
...induce these terrified infants to strip and climb the dark, evil-smelling flues," writes Author Phillips, masters used "beatings with rods and ropes, straw lighted beneath them, pins stuck in their legs . . . kicks on their bottoms." The rough flues rubbed great open sores on elbows and knees, which masters hardened with saltpeter; after about six months, they stopped hurting...