Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year's Eve, 1887, a group of friends gathered at Edwin Booth's home (remodeled by Stanford White) in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Shortly before midnight he disclosed to them a plan dear to his heart. He would found an actor's club, to which would be admitted men in the varied arts, and in which the best of the writing, painting and music world might come to learn that the actor, too, is a gentleman. Mr. Booth was distressed at the slight repute in which his profession was held before the world. He would give his home...
Every year at 11:30 on New Year's Eve, the members gather. A representative actor reads Booth's dedication speech, which ends close to the stroke of midnight. At that stroke Walter Oettel, Booth's dresser in the theatre, now the superintendent of the club, passes a cup in which the members drink the health of this hale old tradition...
...comprehensive time-table, more explicit than any railroad bulletin, has been prepared, which all revellers from Radcliffe must rigidly observe. A nice distinction and sense of proportion determines the hours set by this table. All students must check in at home at midnight when returning from a dance. An 11.45 o'clock deadline has been set for the theatre-goers, while those who seek the Boston Arena on frosty winter nights must punch the clock at 11 o'clock sharp. The skating rink in Cambridge is honored by a 10.30 o'clock margin, but all promenaders along the Charles River...
...halls which feed daily 760 students residing in the Business School dormitory group. In these halls 112 student waiters are employed. In addition to these halls the dining room in the Faculty Club provides meals for 50 and the students' night restaurant, open from 6 o'clock till after midnight, takes care of 200. There is also a cafeteria where 100 members of the office force eat daily. Below the Faculty Club is a special dining hall where a student may invite women guests by making reservations with Mrs. Herd on the first floor of Morgan Hall. This dining hall...
Bancroft takes the part of engineer Cannon-Ball Casey recently fired for starting "The Midnight Flyer" at noon during an eclipse, but at present chief throttle pusher of the fast 'Oriole Limited" who prides himself upon his wrestling prowess. His troubles start when Luke Beamish, "what the world lacked when they built the Panama Canal" when it comes to getting "hot" with a shovel, is taken off the old "Isobel" and made his fireman. Luke is the father of the prettiest girl of the railroad yards, or something like that, and Casey as well as Superintendent Sweeney's collegiate...