Word: midday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day he again voluntarily returned to the Senate hearing at which Partners Thomas Lamont and Russell Leffingwell gave tedious testimony about financing after the U. S. entered the War. Finally Mr. Morgan expressed his disappointment. "I guess we are in for another dull day." Before catching a midday train back to ' Manhattan he shook hands with Senator Nye and his fellow investigators...
...know I shall fear neither death nor living so much when I know that this great beauty of mountain and sky and sea lies wrapped in eternal silence through unbroken spans of years-that across its dreaming face will be drawn veils of color, rose at dawn, gold at midday, blue at twilight, day and night, year after year, century following century...
...businesses were closed. Health officers advised every one to stay at home. Three children and several adults were reported dead of pneumonia after breathing dust. During the height of the storm, railway traffic was at a standstill. When high winds swept the dust Eastward Kansas City had night at midday and people walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great was the crop damage remained largely a matter of guesswork. Oklahoma grimly reported that 50% of the wheat in the Western part of the State was ruined. An Oklahoman was said to have fainted when a drop...
...half years to write Budden-brooks, twelve years for The Magic Mountain, some ten years for the first part of Jacob and His Brothers. Because he is mildly superstitious, the round numbers that have partitioned his life please his "sense of mathematical clarity." "It was midday when I came into the world; my 50 years lay in the middle of the decades, and in the middle of a decade, halfway through it, I was married. ... I have a feeling that I shall die at the same age as my mother...
...drowsy mind (for not of this world is the Vagabond) toyed with the fantasy of peaceful fields, of mountain lakes, disturbed only by the ripple of leaping fish, of shaded paths, of ferns bejewelled with dew at midday. He had often sat on warm rocks after sundown in the spring and listened to the first feeble cheeps of triumphant infant frogs. He remembered that he had thought it the victorious cry of consciousness, the first cry of life, the harbinger of gentle summer evenings...