Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer Mr. Valentino walked over to Mrs. Gould "with a firm and dignified step," and spun her out upon the floor in a Brazilian maxixe. As dawn broke, Frisco awarded him first prize in the Charleston contest...
Gradually during the past few weeks the significance of these events began to dawn on Congress. The Farm Federation, a strong and representative group of farmers, had turned from conservative to radical?wanted something entirely beyond the Administration's program. Other farm bodies spoke in similar fashion. Supporters of the Administration coming up for re-election next year began to have fears. Senator Cummins, veteran regular, was represented as going to the White House with the declaration that unless something were done about the farm surplus (i.e., farm prices) he might well be defeated...
...There was an operation for appendicitis, and a few days later, a minor operation. Then, in the small hours of the Tuesday before Christmas his grandniece and five business lieutenants gathered at the bedside of an unconscious man, 71 years old, and began the vigil which Death ended at dawn...
This time, however, as Congress meets, it is turning dawn in international relations. Crescent light reveals Locarno, reveals the League of Nations, vigorous if not triumphant, and the World Court, formidably attractive. To be sure, the new light has not yet gilded politics, nor has the personnel of Congress yet admitted any degree of conversion to a new conception. But the crescent dawn reveals a surge, a wave, a recrudescence, of international vision and, it may be, of altruism. Certainly there is health in hope...
...Many a current slang phrase or expression is the creation of a dizzy brain overheard and remembered by a clearer head. The streets of New York between midnight and dawn, when the inebriates come sailing home, are productive fields for the professional wise cracker," answered Mr. Catlett when asked about the source of his humorous sayings...