Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commanding figure, erect and alert, his noble voice, once heard never to be forgotten, the persuasive authority of his manner, free then as always from all elocutionary trickery, the forceful simplicity of his language, all combined to produce upon us the sense of a new era about to dawn...
...dawn, according to President Neilson, who has summed up the benefits Harvard received from his administration as follows...
...closeup. Except for a farewell scene, Sidney Blackmer has the cold, damp passion of a clay statue. He seems hardly to have the resolution to kill himself-as he threatens to do at regular intervals but never does. A moonflower is a bloom that lives only between dusk and dawn. In this play of love on a one-night stand, at times its fragrance fades...
...continue to recreate itself like the hydra-headed monster. To adopt the fatalistic attitude and let nature take its course would doubtless lead in a short time to such swarms that all Britain would be a vast human sardine-can. Yet there is a gleam of hope like the dawn on far off hills. Before quarters become too close for effective slaughter, let England enlist in life's campaign for "Bigger and Better Wars...
After all, the seven o'clock nuisance is only a relic of the Middle Ages--a reminder of the bright days when lads and maidens frolicked gaily out to the cow pasture several hours before dawn and had to be safely tucked away by the time the our few tolled--which happened to be several hours before it is considered correct to present one's self at any properly regulated dance. Those sensitive souls who have failed to become immune to the bell, curse its insistent clamor as heartily as the bell-man, doomed to incommode not only himself...