Word: dark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaunt, dark-eyed man in a skullcap and ermine-trimmed robe, Franklin Roosevelt had written a letter for Christmas, remembering perhaps how that man's long pale hands had twisted with painful earnestness when they talked together of world peace three years...
...free on a suspended sentence; John McAdams, Customs sergeant who accepted bribes to let trunkloads of drugs from transatlantic liners pass through Customs gates. Odorous was the tale they told of a narcotics organization which coiled around the U. S., China, Europe, a story of underworld big business, dark deeds. Most of them pointed to Lepke: the big shot...
...opened the canopy over his cockpit, prepared to follow. He paused: what of the third man, whom he had not seen? If he for some reason had stayed in the ship, he would surely die. Pilot Neely decided to stay, too, and fly the ship down. In the dusty dark, unbroken as he neared the ground, he had only his lighted instruments to tell him whether he was on an even keel, only his altimeter to tell him when he was close to the unpredictable earth. Harold Neely's luck equaled his pluck. The bomber missed all the gullies...
...proclaimed: "In Germany 147 men have to live on one square kilometre-in Russia only nine. This may be borne for a time by superhuman effort, but not forever." When vilification of Britain was in order, he was among the loudest and most insistent, branding the enemy "a dark smudge off the Continent," "a heap of moneybags." "a rich parvenu wishing to play world policeman...
...country wants," for most of his 60 years, has been Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln. In his day he has been accused of enough dark deeds to get a whole portfolio of Oppenheim characters hung. Born a Hungarian Jew. he added the Lincoln to his name, he said, in admiration for the Great Emancipator. He went to England, somehow became a Presbyterian missionary, turned himself into an Anglican curate, made himself a Quaker when he was secretary to Quaker B. Seebohm Rowntree (cocoa). Trebitsch Lincoln, before World War I, got himself elected M. P. for Darlington, was accused in a secret...