Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he crusaded for reformation of the immigration laws to put an end to a serious U. S. shortage of servant girls. Another time he helped prevent the adoption of Daylight Saving Time in the District of Columbia by pointing out that the "hungry lions and ravishing tigers" in the Washington zoo would set up "such a howl as you never heard" if their feeding-hours were changed. Minister Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State still remembers arranging an audience with the Pope in Rome to which Sol went wearing several dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed...
...four-time trans-Atlantic flyer and, in 1932, first person to fly solo across the North Atlantic east to west, serialized his autobiography. Week before publication was to start he blurbed: "The world knows me as a hero, but I am a night bird. . . . Life for me begins when daylight fades and bright lights glitter in the bars and clubs from here to Honolulu. ... I cried when I left my Tahiti sweetheart. . . . Amy [Johnson Mollison, who lately divorced him] has been wonderful to me, but we are poles apart." From England, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Dinan, Brittany, then...
...there is Tomas, a big pot-bellied black fellow at headquarters, who is a sort of chief operator, or section chief. Officially Tomas belongs to the Avenida automatic exchange, quartered in the same building; but through seniority and an especially winning personality which he has, he really works his daylight shift in the public business office. Can't say how he spends his nights, but there's a night club next door. Tomas sometimes sits in the doorway to the Commercial office, facing the elevators; other times, he perches on the counter under the sign reading "Complaints." When...
...Occasional two-way radio communication with station RPX of the Russian Polar Expedition on Fridtjof Nansen (Franz Joseph) Land constituted one of the most interesting outside connections to us at Little America during 1929-30; when we reported sitting down to supper during the Antarctic summer of continuous daylight, the Russians remarked they were just eating their breakfast in the middle of their Polar night winter season. The purpose of their expedition was to establish an advance meteorological and communication base for the projected North Pole flight of the Graf Zeppelin, which was subsequently canceled. Krenkel himself told...
...year ago all four Brady gangsters were in jail, indicted for murder. They secured a change of venue which transferred three of them to the county jail at Greenfield, Ind. There last October they clubbed Sheriff Clarence Watson, made a daylight escape. Linked to them last April was a $11,400 bank robbery at Farmland...