Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weird creature looked like a bad dream. Dark hair curled dankly almost to his shoulders, and he smiled slyly out of a dirty white face. It was a wintry day, but he was barefooted. He wore long woolen underwear, an outlandish, oversize, red flowered sunsuit and, over it all, two tattered girl's dresses...
Audience Participation. In Manhattan, Comedian Jack Carter reported that after his weekly television show he received a letter from a dentist: "I would . . . like to call your attention to a dark spot in your upper bicuspid area . . . May I be of service...
...players on the peek-preview team have a good chance of staying on all spring. They include Bill Rickenbacker, junior champion of New York City; Hugh Nawn, number-one man on the '51 freshman team; and Sam Seagar, who beat Princeton last year on a 12-foot putt after dark...
...camera spares India neither praise nor blame. It takes a passing glance at the high, cool beauties of Kashmir, the shaded Western luxuries of India's rich, and the dark, woebegone face of an Indian waif circled by three buzzing flies. It watches a family of Untouchables eating a nameless dirty mush, then joins a poor but caste-proud Brahman for a chaste meal of fruit and vegetables, arranged, as elegantly as a still-life painting, on a large plantain leaf...
...western culture it is meant to be. If culture is what Eliot says it is, and can be nothing else, then it is plucking at the coverlet in Britain and virtually dead everywhere else, including the U.S. But this is exactly what Eliot's Notes says-that another Dark Ages is just around the corner...