Word: darked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tennis courts will be run on an hourly basis on week day afternoons, from 1 o'clock until dark. Reservations for these periods may be made by signing up on the reservation card, posted on the Bulletin Board in the south end of the Locker Building, between 8:30 and 12:30 o'clock, and thereafter by seeing the Collector at the courts. On Sunday, the courts will be available for play from 2 to 6 o'clock only and reservations for Sunday afternoon play may be made only with the Collector at the courts on Saturday afternoon...
Sherriff, 32, dark, slender, taciturn, was an insurance broker. He knew little of playwriting but he said he would try. The only drama he knew was the War. He had enlisted at 17 and emerged a second lieutenant. He sat down and wrote the story of a dugout in which he had lived. The play was produced. Friends said it was good. At their urging he sent it off to the London managers. One by one they turned it down...
Henry Varnum Poor is a snub-nosed husky, dark from the sun. He was born in Kansas in 1888, attended Stanford University, studied painting at the Slade School and with Walter Sickert in London, and at the Julian Academy in Paris. After painting for several years, he found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio." Believing that modern art naturally tends to enhance utilitarian objects, Painter Poor became Potter Poor. He has now thoroughly infused his art with mundane strength. From shaping delicate urns and saucers, he turns cheerfully to designing a series of mosaic tiles...
...Velvet-collared black or dark blue coats...
...Lorenzo the Magnificent, mighty patron of the arts and writer of bawdy ditties, a politically high-minded ruler whose actions were tyrannous. Giuliano's brother was Pope Leo X, a dilettante and politician who palely reflected his father's glories. Giuliano himself had the aquiline features and dark locks of his tribe. But he did not have the spouting energy. He met and married Princess Philiberta of Savoy, aunt of Francis...