Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were trying to kidnap or kill me. That was probably because the Bolsheviks suspected that I could no longer bear to see their treachery [to Russia] and had decided to break forever with Bolshevism. In [Tsarist] Russia Joseph Stalin says with his pretense of infallibility, there prevailed 'the darkest terror of a police dictatorship.' . . . In reality never has the [Russian] working class suffered such privations as have been inflicted upon it in the period of so-called Socialization. ... I have been able to speak with many workers who still remember and liked work in the old Russia. They...
...report, American Recommended Practice of School Lighting, was based on a study sponsored by the Illuminating Engineering Society and American Institute of Architects. It declared many schoolchildren had so little light for their work that they suffered from eyestrain, irritability, headaches. Even on a bright day children in the darkest part of a classroom may get only five foot-candles,* one-twentieth as much light as those near the windows, and on a dark day illumination of their desks may drop as low as one footcandle. The investigators claimed tests showed children did 28% better in reading when they...
...since the darkest days of the depression have Wall Street and Park Avenue been so agitated as by yesterday's announcement that the New York Stock Exchange has suspended the firm of Richard Whitney & Co. By luncheon time the dismal word had penetrated even such frivolous retreats as the Colony Restaurant and '21.' For once, Mrs. Harrison Williams' clothes, Carrie Munn's crazy hats and Bob Topping's latest escapade ceased to be favorite topics of conversation. . . . Not in our time, in our fathers' time nor in our grandfathers' time has there...
...When Suzette (Lily Pons), singing in Paris with a jazz band, declares "It is to sing in opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade her shirt, etc. for a brief costume of feathers and a habitat in darkest Africa. Her purpose, inspired by Pressagent Corny Davis (Jack Oakie), is to catch the attention of Talent Scout Lucius B. Blynn (Edward Everett Horton), in Africa on a big-game-hunting vacation...
...diseased and defective brains poison young healthy brains, by preaching of their past, which is as dark as the darkest part of Africa (Spain...