Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor he appears in a dark business suit and introduces a great many bills, usually minor in nature, for his constituents. When the constituents come to Washington he receives them cordially, and leads them proudly to the White House to meet President Hoover...
...Oyez, oyez, oyez!" will cry, for the first time since June, a dark, handsome, neatly morning-coated gentleman in the most august room in the national Capitol a few minutes after noon on the first Monday in October. "All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court...
Appendicitis is not a casual matter for a man of 69. Before the attack had reached its height or the doctor made his diagnosis Paderewski must have known what it was. His case was serious, yet the amazing sequence of that evening was not the hurried drive down the dark road through the park and on to Lausanne, not the operation, or his quick recovery, but his own refusal to change his plans. He was confident that he would be out of it safely in a short time, and in a shorter time than anyone dared hope...
Around Nogales, Ariz., raged a terrific electric storm. At intervals the blinding flashes revealed a dark horseman, bowed in his saddle, motionless on the plain. When the storm cleared, searchers found the horseman to be Rancher Roy Sorrell. Both he and his mount had been electrocuted, left stiffly standing...
Latest news from the offices of the Harvard socialist Club reached the CRIMSON last night that the original plan of disseminating the manifesto, "Welcome to MacDonald" has been altered. The Socialist Club is still in the dark as to the police's attitude toward the free distribution of printed matter...