Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmington, Del. to help dedicate a monument by Sculptor Carl Milles to the settling there, three centuries ago, of the first Swedes and Finns in America, but the tall Crown Prince, painfully stricken at the last moment by a kidney stone, had to let his third son,' dark, handsome, fast driving* Prince Bertil, 26, present the monument to the President. At the hospital, however, the President chatted for a half-hour with the Crown Prince, invited Crown Princess Louise to Hyde Park for Saturday luncheon. There, although the President's mother wanted to serve country sausages, the President...
...fair. Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, a Huron County boy, was there to make a speech. But the biggest attraction in Ubly was a giant generator, whose 3,000 horsepower was ready, when the switch was pulled, to gallop over 542 miles of newly strung electric lines. After dark, many men, women, children, cows and chickens in three counties saw electric light for the first time in their lives...
...DARK RIVER-Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall - Little, Brown...
...those of such individually able collaborators as were Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. To Tahiti-Expatriates Nordhoff & Hall, who in 18 years have collaborated on eight books, it applied least in their H. M. S. Bounty trilogy, where they followed a true story, applies most in The Dark River, where they follow their imaginations, the Satevepost (where this story ran serially) and Hollywood...
Although The Dark River has the conventional writing and characterizations of melodramatic fiction and introduces an unusual number of picturesque poses (silhouettes atop sea cliffs, arm-around-tree pensiveness), it still rates above the average South Sea island romance. This may be credited, not to its authentic setting-most popular fiction nowadays has that-but rather to its authors' genuine sympathy for native Tahitians...