Word: darker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, by the Bay of Naples, the constant trickle of smoke which flutters over Vesuvius grew larger and darker. At night, there were lovely pink sparks which proved most titillating to U. S. tourists. Neapolitans, however, paid scant attention. No serious eruption was anticipated...
...contrast, is "The Tarn," another psychological study, but in darker vein. Two men, one successful, the other not, one patronizing, the other resentful, walk in the gathering shadows by a mysterious lake. Suddenly the resentment of years surges up in the one; he strangles his companion, flicks him into the black water. Dazed, he stumbles home and to sleep, but dies of nightmare...
...morning round 9 up; after lunch, while Voigt and Perkins started out, he stood on the practice tee driving ball after ball through exactly the same trajectory far down the fairway to where two caddies waited to pick them up. After every perfect drive, Jones' face grew darker. Then he went out on the course and played six more holes with Phil Finlay, a shaky, hard-hitting Harvard boy; by this time he had won his match, 13 up and 12 to play...
...tall, slim, weighs 140 Ibs. His hair is black and kinky, his eyebrows heavy, his ears big, his eyes maroon. He can change his skin color. It is normally brown. But at times he makes it appear lighter with a chemical, at other times darker with a lotion. The Tribune's squad of man-and-news hunters have been unable to find him during five months search. He had disappeared well...
...Rochester, last week, the Philharmonic Orchestra, under Dr. Howard Hanson of the Eastman School of Music, submitted to a large audience and a jury of six, four manuscript orchestral works of U. S. composers. Pageant of P. T. Barnum by Douglas Moore and Darker America by William Grant Still (Negro) were chosen for publication...