Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 27), I was shocked to note the district bounded by Larkin, Mason, Turk and Ellis Streets described as the "toughest part of town," and I am roused to protest. . . . The word "tough" conjures gangsters and gunmen-a district where decent citizens would hesitate to find themselves after dark and where unescorted women would be unsafe...
Pointe Coupée eventually diverted its inheritance to building a school, but except in the Civil War years, West Baton Rouge annually had distributed the interest on Julien Poydras' money to dark, full-breasted Creole brides. Of the $2,400 or so paid each year, the poorest brides get the most. Just how much each receives is the secret of the three commissioners who administer the fund. Otherwise, jealousies might cloud the fame of Julien Poydras...
...initiate political and economic legislation, it is doubtful whether Il Duce will allow it to do much debating. Why the Dictator took all this trouble to organize a legislative body which will probably be just as much a rubber stamp as the Deputies were will probably remain a dark Fascist mystery. Perhaps Premier Mussolini was thinking of a successor who might be somewhat less a Dictator than...
...conscious effort has been made to achieve artistry in "Fair Enough," and this has been successful through a skillful blending of music, costumes, settings and choreography. The chorus has been drilled to military precision by William Holbrook, and in one scene on a dark stage with luminous masks puts the Vincent Club to shame...
...roundish, solid man in immaculate dark clothes, with fine tight features and bright brown eyes, George Grosz has more to say of his precise technical discipline than of his feelings. But last week he confessed to a fascination with horror tales and movies, tapped his round head solemnly as he declared: "Every survivor is a haunted house...