Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...October, this October fell less than one inch. Abandoned private steam plants were prepared for operation. Housewives had to be told to cut down on current. Only every other street light burned at night. Electrical signs were shut off. The lights on the tower of the city hall went dark for the first time in 30 years...
Great was the friendship between the late great Theodore Roosevelt and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, onetime (1912-18) British Ambassador to the U. S. Last fortnight were published letters to and from Sir Cecil, among them, illuminating dark spots in history, some 25,000 new words of Rooseveltiana.† Wrote President Roosevelt...
Monday?"Baron Subkoff was here for dinner. He appears to be a most interesting young man?slender, dark and good-looking. He is very intelligent, and I shall continue to invite...
Strangely for once a Boston audience seemed to warm up and get into the spirit of the piece. By the middle of the second act very nearly everyone in the house was hissing the dark sleek villain and wildly cheering the hero and his virtuous sayings. It was indeed an unlooked for pleasure to see spectators young and old clapping their hands in high glee in time with the music and stamping heavily on the accented beat. The atmosphere was extremely contagious, and few found it possible to stand aloof from the general merriment...
...plot of "After Dark" is scarcely worth mentioning as much. It is the traditional story of the hero who gets into bad company at once, and the intricate complications which follow are all in the best melodramatic style, and lend themselves perfectly to phrases like "Unhand me villain" and the like, all of which are greeted with uproarious cheers from the audience...