Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special return train from Providence to Boston, run by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, has been chartered to make the trip on June 26, leaving Providence at 12 o'clock midnight, daylight saving time...
Indianapolis, Ind., a town of much political consciousness and confusion, was committed to Daylight Saving Time by its City Council. Its mayor then vetoed the ordinance. But last week the City Council overrode the veto, six votes to three. Effective in the repassage was Novelist-Councilman Meredith Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, Otherwise Phyllis, etc., etc.), now serving his first term. Mr. Nicholson reported that he had received a telegram from Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, declaring that "the movies" would be ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour...
DOOMSDAY, THE HEART OF A FOLLIES GIRL, THE MAD HOUR, BURNING DAYLIGHT, THE PLAY GIRL, and not a few others...
...Burning Daylight. Milton Sills is a red-hot rip-snorter of Alaska-so hot that he calls himself Burning Daylight. He finds gold, all right. He takes it to San Francisco, where he blunders into polite society. The slick city men hornswoggle him when he plays the stock market. But, finally, by virile tactics, he gets even with them and marches out of their office with a big black bag containing $3,000,000. Then dat ole debbil Burning Daylight says to his sweetheart (Mrs. Milton Sills, the onetime Doris Kenyon): "Let's go back to Alaska." And, three...
...clean white uniforms bearing the crimson image of a linotype machine on the left breast, the CRIMSON baseball team will emerge from its winter quarters at 3 o'clock today, Daylight Saving time, to take its first steps in preparation for the second annual diamond--clash with the Princetonian nine at Princeton on Saturday...