swart

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Eight days of Pedro were apparently enough for Chile's wily Dictator, swart President Carlos Ibanez.

From Time Magazine Archive

They paid little attention to their swart, stocky son, left him in the haphazard hands of tutors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only last year short, swart Senor Don Carlos Guillermo Davila, potent Chilean publisher, was hobnobbing in Washington with President Hoover and many another man of property.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last December he became spokesman for the Japanese Cabinet, replacing the somewhat less affable Foreign Office spokesman, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, short, swart Yakichiro Suma.

From Time Magazine Archive

His broad flat face was swart, his eyes were like coals, and his tongue was red; he wielded a great spear.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien