Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark summer of 1932, over the violent protest of the workers involved, President John Llewellyn Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America signed a contract with Illinois coal operators reducing the basic daily wage from $6.10 to $5. Whatever justification for this dictatorial procedure there may have been, the reaction of the miners was direct and immediate. A large group revolted, setting themselves up as the Progressive Miners of America, an organization with 30,000 members in the bituminous fields of Illinois and Indiana, which this year joined up with Mr. Lewis' enemy...
...muck & reeds of the river bank when Japanese motorboats appeared, fired a couple of belts of machine gun bullets into the Panay, boarded her and finally left her to sink. Two hours and 20 minutes after the attack began the Panay capsized and sank. Not until long after dark, by devious routes, some carrying their wounded on borrowed stretchers, did the survivors reach the town Hohsien. There they were picked up some 36 hours later by the Oahu and the British gunboat...
...sweepstakes ticket. Shrewd older Brother Roy Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty and a voice like a chime of bells. The Queen, envious of Snow White's beauty, hid her in the scullery. But though her work was grimy. Snow White was happy. She dreamed of a Prince who would some...
Walt Disney wears the Hollywood uniform: lounge coats, open-throated shirts, fancy sweaters. His thick, dark brown hair, which dips to a widow's peak slightly less emphatic than Robert Taylor's, has a long top lock which Disney wraps around his finger while he talks. At a loss for words, he often resorts to pantomime. He works until six or seven o'clock every night, in busy times works round the clock. He drives his Packard roadster home to dinner, plays with his baby daughters, Diane Marie and Sharon Mae, and goes to bed. Hollywood hotspots...
Typical of his half-realistic, half-symbolic stories is "And in the Distance a Light . . ." that tells how a group of militiamen in Madrid find a spy flashing a light in the dark, kill him after they locate the spy to whom he is signaling. All night long they trace the light across the city, killing an engineer, an aviator, a girl, until by morning they have reached the front lines of the fascists, are still feverishly following the gleam when fascist bullets stop their search...