Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambulance driver! In other words, I rattle round pitch dark streets in a three-ton furniture pantechnicon. God help my poor bloody patients. I bet I cause more casualties than I succour...
Month ago Japan's senior statesmen drew this indecisive character-"blinking," as the Japanese say, "like a bull drawn into the sunlight from a dark stall"-out into the open to be Premier. He had an awful time making up his mind about a Cabinet; it took him 29½ hours, cost him 2,047 yen for 590 bottles of beer, three barrels of sake, 780 bottles of soft drinks, 910 box lunches, ten strings of dried cuttlefish and six telephones-all but the telephones consumed during conferences by eager candidates, hangers-on, advisers...
...rescuers found nothing. Captain W. W. Kuhne of American Export Line's Excambion docked at Boston and snorted: "The whole thing sounds fishy! . . . Very heavy seas were running. It was pitch-dark. Visibility was almost zero. In my opinion no submarine could have operated successfully...
Today, 22-year-old, dark-haired Ellen Stone lives with her horn in a little bare-floored room off Manhattan's musical 57th Street. For amusement she goes to the movies, reads "great sociological novels like The Grapes of Wrath." But her big thrills come when her boy friends (mostly fellow horn players) ask her out for an evening of horn duets and trios. Her hero: sober, 180-lb., 52-year-old Bruno Jaenicke, world's champion horn player, who beeps and purls in John Barbirolli's New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...boys in my life," said "Jim". "They're up at 6:30 o'clock, at work a little after 7, stop for a bite when someone gets hungry after noon, and then they're at it again all afternoon and to bed almost as soon as it's dark...