Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hall to watch. "Oh my yes," replied Miss Cam to my question, "I much admire Dorothy Canfield and I read a novel about New Orleans--what was it? which I liked very much." She picked up the phone and smiled with anticipation. As I walked down the dark hallway, past the still inquisitive chambermaid, I could hear Helen Mand Cam in process of accepting another invitation to speak. No dust will settle while she's about...
...buildings, said Mumford, were too high. Children could not use the elevators alone; mothers could not keep an eye on them from their kitchen windows. The foyers were dark, windowless and waste space. Though subsidized by tax exemption, the apartments were not reserved for low-income families. The "completely asphalted" playgrounds were inadequate...
Illness kept him out of the Civil War, deepening his depression. For years Parkman could sleep only two or three hours a night, could never work longer than two consecutive hours. He sat in the dark, with bandaged eyes, memorizing his chapters. He wrote with wires across the page to guide his hand, an average of six lines a day. When he went to France for treatment, physicians warned him that he would go insane if he continued to write. His wife and son died. He envied his fellow historian, William Prescott (also half blind), because Prescott, "confound him," could...
...electrical wiring system has been rearranged with workmen still on the job putting double play connections in the house's "dark" rooms and repairing "pooped-out" desk lamps. Heating in the house is also being adjusted to relieve studying congestion on the first floor during cold periods upstairs...
When the curtain went up, the stage was bare, except for a few pieces of scenery with their brown canvas backs to the audience. The dancers appeared from the wings in their practice clothes: men in dark overalls, girls in black bathing suits. They began to move and gesture. Someone backstage dropped his tools with a loud clatter. In the audience, a small voice asked "Maman, where is the music...