Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article on telephone girls Mainichi points out that those new at their jobs are usually so sensitive that, when rebuked by an irate subscriber or cursed by a drunken one, they often put their dark little heads down on their switchboards and sob as though their hearts would break. Meanwhile hundreds of subscribers work themselves into a frenzy as they get no response to their jiggle or "moshi-moshi" signal...
...actors produce sobs and choked voices as easily as did the rural players of the '905 when informed that the dour gentleman in hip boots was about to foreclose the mortgage. Principal among the actors is Tokyjiro Tsutsui of Kyoto. Osaka and Nagoya, who stalks about in the dark robes of "The Shadow Man" and finally commits harakiri with a four-foot knife...
...Vagabond King (Paramount). Francois Villon was a lean, bony, shrivelled man, with a sharp dark face and an upper lip pulled into permanent irony by a dagger slash he got one night outside the church of St. Benoit-le-Bientourne. He made an indifferent living in the Paris underworld of the 15th Century, and there is evidence that he served several jail terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this...
...Prince Edward Island Government. On Prince Edward Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, Charlie Dalton lived near Nail Pond, a wild region abounding in game. Like all oldtime fox trappers, Charlie Dalton was anxious to catch a "nigger"-not a black fox but a "red" fox preternaturally dark by some accident of heredity. Having caught several such, he bought three pairs from other trappers. Instead of selling their skins for a proportionately large profit, Charlie Dalton bred them, started the first known silver fox farm for breeding purposes and the Dalton strain from which the best captive silver foxes...
...Englishman's cut-shots, netted repeatedly. After being set-point three times, Lord Aberdare won the first set 6-3, took the next quickly, then began to net shots on his own forehand. But Frazier let him have some on his backhand and Lord Aberdare, cool, dark-haired, unhurried, gained confidence, found grille and dedans for aces, mixed his usual service with an undertwist until he had the last set, 7-5, and the title...