Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Before the dawn of realism, romanticism, expressionism and the other isms by which the modern theatre is cataloged, there was a type of drawing room comedy which served as staple entertainment. Wilde, Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones all worked industriously in this medium, thereby gaining fame and gold. Of late years the drawing room has been virtually unoccupied. Nice people saying casual, witty things have nearly vanished. Therefore it is a great novelty to see one of these comedies again, suavely, smartly written by Frederick Lonsdale (Aren't We All) and even more suavely...
...battle is with dawn...
...there is any truth in the old proverb about the success of the early bird in the quest of the wily norm, Tammany should have its way in the National Democratic Convention of 1928: for already, long before the dawn of the next presidential campaign, that organization's representatives are beginning to flit about and chirp noisily. The first flight, of course, has been southward. where the game is biggest, although most elusive...
...bleak but fertile plains of Manitoba at dawn and dusk. Over them a short but beamy shag-pate, Caleb Gare, walking as though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie...
That was all. The night wore on and the dawn came. Inquiries were made. A farmer had seen a plane following the regular mail route about ten miles farther on. The next day wore on. Searching planes were brought up to Bellefonte from Cleveland. The clouds still hung low and little searching could be done from the air. Inquiries were made on the ground. Two men reported seeing a plane at Punxsutawney, a few miles beyond Bellefonte after midnight. The plane switched on its landing light, appeared to sight the town, circled for height and appeared to return...