Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pitch dark, Japanese naval guns suddenly belched, rained shells on the feeble Chinese shore defenses, and the flotilla chugged into the Bay. Troops began landing at 4:30 a.m. The next morning and under a rain of fire, throughout the day some 40,000 Japanese, their horses, supplies and heavy guns, were ferried ashore where they split into two columns. One headed north for Waichow, whence a highway leads into Canton, and by week's end its artillery and bombers had the city in flames. The other struck westward to cut the rail line between Canton and Hong Kong...
...ironic indeed that he envelopes the whole in a romantic, pure atmosphere, for the truth was the dancers as a whole lived a very immoral life and were often almost vicious in their vices. Another typical Degas painting is the race track scene "They're Off." Here everything is dark and stormy looking except for a spotlight of bright red and yellow color thrown upon the three jockeys...
Reduced to its essentials, Dark Rapture is merely the record of a trip into the Belgian Congo by Armand Denis...
...Pygmy tribe in the act of building a skyscraper bridge out of rope vines. They also went on an elephant hunt without failing to photograph the finish, and escaped from a forest fire which was obviously genuine. These and similar exploits would by themselves be enough to make Dark Rapture, except for its title, a model for pictures of its type. In addition, Explorer Denis pickled his adventures in some of the most beautiful landscape photography ever recorded on film, used native music as the basis for a brilliant accompanying score and furnished an announcer, John Martin, who gives...
...scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes ("a delicious vegetable ... of the cucumber family") from Jamaica, chaulmoogra (a leprosy remedy) from Burma. In 1906-07, Fairchild and his staff distributed some 800 tung-oil trees (oil used in varnishes and paints) to pioneer growers in the U. S. South and Southwest...