Word: darken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black Beauty ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL-Julia Peterkin & Doris Ulmann-Ballon ($3.50). One of the very few Southern gentlefolk writing today, Julia Peterkin has a proprietary interest in the Negro, who in her books behaves according to Hoyle (Southern style). Neither lynchings nor Harlem hotspots darken her clear pages. A Martian visitor reading Authoress Peterkin would hardly guess that there was such a thing as a "Negro problem." For her and her readers the Negro is the Southern plantation darky, whom Southerners always represent as being a lovable, child-like creature, living as a happy dependent on a sympathetic white master...
...slender, jagged tongue of land protruding south-west toward Asia, dribbling the Aleutian Islands from its end. It is a Dantesque region of ice and fire. Out of cracks in its glaciers spurts steam from the muttering cauldrons below. Rivers run blood-red with oxide of iron. Mighty volcanoes darken the sky with smoke and ash and litter the land with grotesque shapes of lava. It is the land of Aniakchak. world's largest active crater, within whose bliz-zard-beaten rim, 21 mi. around, a lesser volcano raises its snout and a placid lake nestles...
...darken the stage yet more, give Jarboro dramatic support, Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi got Negro Baritone Jules Bledsoe to sing Amanasro in the second performance of Aïda, said he would later appear with Jarboro in L'Africaine as well...
...point some uncertainty as to whether Miss Tobin or Mr. Young is taking the female corner of the situation. The latter's excessive skill at basting a ham and doing the housework while his wife works at the office, casts a shadow over his little menage which threatens to darken it forever. However, by devious remedies, his cuckolding is averted and his manliness reaffirmed in the end. Genevieve Tobin, as the lovely woman who stooped to what she thought was folly, is very good indeed, uniting to those charms with which she was endowed at birth, a certain undeniable talent...
From the third to the fifth day of the fever dirty pink spots appear?first on the abdomen and upper chest, then on the back, then rapidly all over the body. Soon the spots become rusty pink. Some of them darken to purple, blue, brown, then disappear...