Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proved to be the darkest hour before the dawn. The room was insufferably hot. It all seemed over. Somebody moved for adjournment for ten minutes to give us a chance to get a breath of air. We broke up into little groups. The British remained in the conference room. The others went outside. Then the bargaining began...
...search for raw materials? particularly palm oil?that Lord Leverhulme became involved in the greatest of his enterprises?the development of the Belgian Congo. Situated in the least illuminated portions of darkest Africa, first explored by the famed Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the Belgian Congo consists of 900,000 square miles of tropical jungle, crossed by the Equator and watered by the Congo River. It was long-bearded, farsighted, savagely-flayed Leopold II of Belgium who first saw in the Congo district an opportunity for taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created...
...attitude, disinterested, refreshing. Volatile Author Morand reflects it in these stories. One of them, "Good-bye, New York!," tells of an exotic beauty who starts out on a de luxe cruise around Africa. She and her maid occupy the royal suite. Her emeralds are the squarest, her mink the darkest. She speaks to only one fellow-passenger, a Bostonian, whom she takes suavely for her lover. A gossiping busy-body spots her as a Negress "passing" for white, horrifies a huddle of dowagers with the news...
Stephen S. Wise, rabbi snubbed by European Zionists: "I come back a disillusioned and dispirited man after I looked upon the darkest hour of the Jewish nation in many generations. There is no Zionism. It is dead. I thought I was leaving the land in which Zionism was misunderstood and that I would find kindred spirits in Europe...
Shubert-"Golden Dawn". All about the white man and his girl in she wilds darkest Africa. Comedy Englishman, two good tunes, and most of the other necessaries...