Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aviv Opera. While working in Palestine, Ballerina Nikova's interest in the Yemenite Jews became so absorbing that she spent months living in their villages learning their customs and dances at first hand. Upshot of her study was the formation in 1932 of a ballet troupe of seven dark-eyed, black-haired Yemenite girls. Because the girls sang as well as danced, she called her troupe the Palestine Singing Ballet. Eight months ago, Nikova's seven singing ballerinas started out on a tour of continental Europe. Last fortnight they opened a two-and-a-half-week engagement...
Bright enough to leave a long silvery reflection on a dark river is the monster planet Jupiter now shining in the southeastern sky. Three hundred times larger than the earth, containing more matter than all the other planets combined, Jupiter takes twelve years to complete its ponderous revolution around the sun. Far from the centre of the solar system, Jupiter receives little heat, has a small core of solid rock, surrounded by a frozen ocean, thousands of fathoms deep. Thick clouds hide from astronomers the furious storms that rack the planet, scarring its face with wide bands of purple...
Will you congratulate your Radio Editor for me on his delightfully apt descriptive phrase in TIME, Aug. 22, concerning News Commentator Boake Carter-''cloaking his accounts of daily events in a tone of dark menace." The lack of such a phrase to fit Mr. Carter's dramatic news-rendering has saddened me for years...
...chains in the destroyer's bow and sank the trawlers. Ten miles east of British-owned Gibraltar, at 2:15 a.m., just when Commander Castro thought he had successfully eluded his enemies, the 8-inch guns of the Rightist cruiser Canarias began to boom out of the dark. Soon three Rightist destroyers joined the attack...
...carrying out his second aim, Director Cahill has shown himself a remarkably astute social engineer. His first move was to make hefty, dark-eyed, Thomas C. Parker of Richmond, Va., his Assistant and Regional Director for the South. Parker, like Cahill, was devoted to the idea of building up community art centres. They began in the South, where Holger Cahill had observed the greatest need. The First Federal-sponsored community centre was started by Director Parker in Raleigh, N. C., in January 1936. Since then Assistant Parker, operating from his office in the Project's old building on Washington...