Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coast of Connecticut seven squat little ships rode the grey waves of the Atlantic at dawn one sombre morning last week; a thousand men waited the order to "Blow her out" which would start the sunken submarine S-51 toward the surface from off her slimy bier in the ocean...
...Where were cares lost at 9 p. m., caution at 12, scruples at 3, sanity before dawn...
...students at the Academie des Beaux Arts. The year's work was over and preparations were in order for the annual Quatre Arts ball where all cares are lost at 9 o'clock, all caution at 12, all scruples and costumes at 3, all sanity before the dawn. . . . When dawn came, Paris gendarmes-as is customary this one night of the year-offered no objections to the staggering rout that chortled, hiccuped and quarreled homeward with grease paint run amuck and hardly enough draperies among the multitude to have warmed a frog. Scenes of Saturnalian abandonment had been...
Rainclouds swaddled the low countries along the North Sea, whipped and harried by a southwest wind, as 14 monstrous rubber bubbles sailed aloft from an aviation field near Antwerp and drifted off toward the Dutch frontier. Night fell before all the bubbles had come again to earth. Dawn found one of them still coasting northeast over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then...
...dispatches, will be drawn in threatening swordplay between two high officials of the Polish government. Were the custom to be followed in the United States, duels, lineally descended from the Burr-Hamilton affair of the early Republic, would settle insurgent politics. A single snick of a rapier in the dawn might prove an effective cloture rule for Senate debate...