Word: darker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sunshine beat down on the white-powdered road out to Mindil Beach, where the Timor Sea lay breathless blue under an offshore breeze. Soon after breakfast time, the beachward procession began-Port Darwin merchants cool in their white ducks; bronzed " 'roos" ("Kangaroos," i.e. Australians) from the cattle country; darker aborigines shuffling along in silent excitement; cooing Chinese in bright pajamas. They watched the horizon all morning. Some had gone home for midday tiffin, but most remained, chattering, scanning, pondering, when a school urchin jumped forward, his eyes bulging, his rigid forefinger jabbing northwestward. "I see 'um!" he cried...
After the first set Mrs. Mallory could still produce the flash of her square, sudden smile; after the second set she looked suddenly darker; she played the third set with dogged courage, the perspiration running down into her eyes. Helen Wills was as pale at the end of the match as she had been at the beginning. Let the people in the stands behave like maniacs. What did she care? At 17, very quietly, she had won the woman's championship of the U. S. She had now reached full growth - 142 pounds, 5 ft. 7. It was time...
...Farmington, Conn.?and Miss Craigie McKay, the maid of honor. The female attendants wore orchid chiffon swinging a full 18 inches from the ground in front and wide brimmed hats. The costumes were extremely simple, that of the maid of honor being distinguished by a slightly darker hue. Their bouquets were of larkspur, butterfly roses and purple orchids...
...That protrusion is still there. Her ears are the same size and shape as Anastasia's. Anastasia's middle finger was slightly crushed in her childhood when a servant caught it in an automobile door. The middle finger is still slightly out of shape. Her hair is darker than was Anastasia's, but it has the same wave...
...reconstruction days, in 1870, a son was born to two ex-slaves living in Augusta. There must have been considerable white blood in him, for even in infancy he was no darker than the knave of spades. It so happened that his surname coincided with the name of the reconstruction President. His father thought that he ought to be given the name of the great Emancipator as well, and his mother insisted that he have a good honest name like Henry. So he was christened Henry Lincoln Johnson...