Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George who stood out alone, clearly visible to every ship in the line, saluting like an automaton for two full hours. Near Princess Elizabeth, doing his best to answer her questions, was King George's cousin and personal naval A.D.C., Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The Queen's dark glasses were unnecessary. It was not raining but visibility was so poor that only two or three ships of the line could be seen at one time...
...piles around the room. I pick up the latest from the table and settle back. "Wedding on June 3. Americans at Chateau de Cande". And on and on, column after column without end. Pictures, too. "The Duke and his finance strolling in the chateau garden. Mrs. Warfield's dark Buick riding through the countryside." To Hell with it all. Let's have a book, something good, something old. Out of the bookcase the thick, leather-bound Shakespeare. Flipping the pages, one by one, dozen by dozen. Macbeth, no, gloomy. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Who ever heard of them? Richard...
With increasing prosperity, however, sentiments changes. Wages which seemed lavish during the dark hours now appear too small; normal hours--hours which generations of workmen have deemed right--now appear oppressive. The result--strikes. Strikes are not, in themselves, wrong. Many strikes are normal, just and reasonable forms of protection against employer-exploitation and they serve a fair and worthy purpose. But strikes which are organized and financed by a group of publicity experts, labor pirates, professional trouble-makers and highly paid agitators, sitting in richly decorated offices hundreds of miles away; strikes which are planned for months in advance...
Quietly knitting a dark blue sweater for his fiancée-who last week legally changed her name to Wallis Warfield - the Duke of Windsor sat in the Château de Cande last week through the broadcast of his brother's Coronation (see p. 15). Acting as unofficial press representative, the Duke's faithful U. S. friend, Herman Rogers, issued to newshawks genteel snippets of information: legally changing Mrs. Simpson's name had cost $2.50. . . . Mrs. Warfield had put aside Ernest Simpson's engagement ring for a new emerald from the Duke. ... On Coronation night...
...feeling towards Spring. Many people travel miles to sec the first crab apple blossoms, the first petals on the Japanese cherry trees. Thousands are thronging natural parks to view magnolias, azaleas, and other fragrant flowers. Most any Sunday afternoon the Vagabond can be seen walking, with a dark-haired lass in a lovely white frock on his arm, through the paths of the Arnold Arboretum, which is located five miles out of Boston on Jamaica Pond Parkway...