Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the darkest hour of China's desperate defense," cried Chinese Banker T. V. Soong, speaking for the Chinese Government, "Robert Short, a friend from a distant land, flew out-of the sky and gave his life. . . . To the Chinese people this act of courage and sacrifice was electrifying." Posthumously Hero Short was created a Chinese Colonel...
Candidate Gustave Winter, darkest of dark horses, could fairly be said to have prevented President von Hindenburg's reelection. His platform was that some payment or restitution should be made to holders of "worthless" German paper mark banknotes of 1,000-mark denominations or larger...
...there is too the Vagabond. There is little enough for him to do. No lectures, few concerts; only the library, vast, dust encrusted, darkest Widener. It is a dreary period for him. But what can he do, what can anyone do? The Vagabond will take refuge in poetry "for God he knows and what must be, must be." He like the others must hitch up his belt, try not to think too much of the Vincent Club, and "say neither it is good, nor it is bad; but only it is here...
There is no grander heritage than a noble tradition. Traditions do more than add quaint lustre to old and great names; they grant a stability and a tranquility which would be impossible without them. In the darkest hours England has ever known she has hung on and muddled through, because, generations before, men of England had hung on and muddled through. That is one of the finest traditions, but there are countless others. For centuries "the brethren in their sorrows overseas" have stood, glass in hand, in barren mess rooms looking at a homely portrait on the wall. One amongst...
...would, exceeded receipts, thereby producing a thumping big deficit. Perhaps it was just as well that Secretary Mellon, who had piled up ten annual surpluses in a row, .was away in Paris when the Treasury had to make its dismal accounting to the country. A depression far beyond his darkest estimates had hit the Government's pocketbook and now to his chief assistant fell the unpleasant task of making explanations...