Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old War veteran distinguished for valor, was co-publisher of the Bowling Green Times-Journal, had been an able lieutenant-governor of the State. Divorced in 1933, he courted a comely widow named Verna Garr Taylor. One night Mrs. Taylor was found shot to death on a dark road, with the general and his automobile nearby. The pistol which had killed her was the general's and the coroner found traces of gunpowder on his hands. Nevertheless, General Denhardt claimed that Mrs. Taylor had committed suicide (TIME...
Women. At Forest Hills, L. I. last week the U. S. women's singles championship went not to a dark horse but to what the horse world calls a sleeper, i.e., one whose victory comes as a great surprise to all save the very sophisticated. Last year's Champion Alice Marble, who was scheduled to meet Poland's hefty Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska in the final, was instead put out in the quarter-finals by Dorothy May Bundy. Chubby Miss Bundy, who resembles her famed tennis-playing mother May Sutton (U. S. champion 1904, and Wimbledon champion...
Most intriguing piece of description is Mr. Bridges' chapter on "Midnight in the Zoo." He went out one dark night and found that lions and tigers prowl about, that monkeys snore just like humans, that snakes sleep soundly with their eyes wide open...
Smiling like the secretive Cheshire cat, the tall, dark and handsome medical director of the American Birth Control League, Dr. Eric M. Matsner, arrived in Manhattan from London last week. In his mind was a new method of rendering women infertile for several weeks at a time. In a box which he carried were 18 South African clawed toads...
...rather than sporting importance. To help him collect them, he again broke the rules by selecting men who were not the usual great athletes and huntsmen, but barflies whose long hours in smoky night clubs, reasoned Zoologist Sanderson, had endowed them with the endurance required for life on the Dark Continent...