Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following plan was agreed upon, according to the Prince: "On the day that Rasputin should choose to come to me, I was to call for him toward midnight, and drive him to the Moika in an open car with Dr. Lazovert as chauffeur. While Rasputin was drinking tea, I was to administer a solution of cyanide of potassium, which would cause his immediate death. His body was to be put into a sack, driven out of town and thrown into the water...
...most brilliant affairs of the season. The guests did not begin to arrive, at the Foot-Lights Club in West 131st Street, until well after midnight. When they did come, they were the elite- Pope B. Billups, candidate for Judge; Dr. Alain Locke, professor of philosophy at Howard University; Actress Gertrude Saunders, Composer Ford Dabney and many another Harlem notable-fashionable Dr. H. Binga Dismond, for example, and ¶ Franklin Carr, the mortician. The ten-course dinner had been cooked by Irvin ¶ Miller himself, president of the Foot-Lights Club and of Miller Productions, Inc., brother of Flournoy...
Shows have been failures before the day of Actors' Equity, with quite different sequels. A thrifty manager would often gather up the last of the waning gate receipts and catch the midnight flyer for Manhattan, leaving ingenue and heavy to learn milking. But Actors' Equity, the protective union of the theatre, has in a great measure eliminated such incidents. Managers are protected against actors who break contracts; they are henceforward not allowed to act in any Equityontrolled theatre. On the other hand they are obliged to file a bond with Equity of sufficient size to pay each member...
...family to this country 15 years ago. And then, there's Thunder he was born in a terrific storm; that's how he got his name. He was nearly killed several years ago when he reared and struck his head going into a box car. It was just midnight on New Year's Eve some New Year present, eh wot? The other two are Ned and Johnny. Those horses are just like children to me look! there they are," and he of the ludicrous spotted face gazed tenderly down into the courtyard below, where four magnificent white charges, with dappled...
...Princeton's newly enforced library hours and those of other colleges are bound to be odious-more odious even than is the usual wont of comparison. And Harvard may be expected to furnish a basis for a good part of these statistical presumptions. From eight in the morning until midnight are the doors of the Princeton library open for admittance; from morn to midnight may one finger leaves and copy notes; from midnight to morn may the goodies mop and scrub...