Word: darken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary to decide this case in favor of the defense, the Church would be relieved of a great financial burden, it is true, but it would be charged, in popular opinion, with having avoided, through technical means, legal liability for what was an undoubted moral duty, and it would darken the way of the Church forever. . . ." Last week Judge Fee handed down his decision, found the Oregon Conference of the Methodist Church liable for $92,000 principal and interest on bonds issued for the Wesleyan Hospital at Marshfield. Ore. Thus in the first Bitting case to be tried, the Methodist...
Problem child for Radio Corp. of America has been Radio-Keith-Orpheum, theatre and cinema-producing company in the courts since February 1933. Last week David Sarnoff, short, round-faced head of Radio Corp. said, in effect, to his troublesome corporate offspring: "Go and never darken my door again." But the orphan was not put out into any storm. Waiting to receive it was Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. which, together with Lehman Bros., Manhattan banking house, bought an unspecified portion of RCA's holdings in RKO stocks and debentures. What Atlas and Lehman paid for their...
...Author Chamberlin introduces incidents and documents to prove how little the ruling class understood what was happening, and to suggest the excitement and good nature of the revolution. Only after the overthrow of Kerensky's Provisional Government and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks does the narrative darken, become more ominous. Then casualty lists, accounts of atrocities replace the accounts of the first enthusiastic confusion. Maintaining an unflinching detachment, Author Chamberlin holds no person or party responsible, betrays indignation only when writing of the Red and White Terror and the execution of the Tsar and his family...
...typical is the "Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia": "The days are wonderful and the nights are wonderful and the life is pleasant. Bargaining is something and there is not that success. The intention is what if application has that accident results are reappearing. They did not darken. That was not an adulteration...
...conditions among women in India, still rankles in many a Hindu breast. Isles of Fear, a survey of the Philippines, annoyed Filipino patriots. This time Authoress Mayo, with sleeves rolled up and muck rake firmly in hand, has waded into the U. S. soldier-pension mess. Statistics and indignation darken her pages like pitch forked dung. By the time she has finished turning over her unsavory material its odor is strong enough to make even a standpat Congressman hold his nose...