Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reds. French Communists were content during the Paris excitement to demonstrate passively at Clichy, Soviet-infested suburb of Paris. But one midnight, as a trainload of legionaries rumbled along between Cannes and Nice, a considerable section of railroad track suddenly leaped and twisted upwards in the dark, wrenched out of place and heaped with rocky debris by a powerful explosive. The legionaries had escaped disaster by five minutes, owing to their
Fire When Ready. A few days later, after midnight on May 1, seven big battleships made white scratches on the still dark surface of Manila Bay in the Philippines. A few rockets and cannon broke cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano...
...darkest exhibit was Mol-lienisia slenops from Louisiana, a two-inch blob of midnight. The brighest was Platypoecilus rubra from the West Indies, deep-burning vermilion and red gold...
...almost entirely nocturnal and consists chiefly in young Fitzalan's survival of the chess, the astrology, the hierophantastic bedchamber of his witch-hostess; the drugged diversions of his host. Composing a ballet-cantata to the solar system is all that keeps Fitzalan from succumbing to so much spiritual midnight. He tries to rescue Janet from the deathly mesh of the place, but fails. Wilfred Hough commits suicide, on a chandelier. All the Prides and the dog Death are horribly dead by the end of the book. Over Mordance Hall comes "a nest of ferns, crawling, vermiform...
Union Square. In a typical U. S. square (Union Square, Manhattan), 10,000 people stood shoulder to shoulder before a bulletin of the Daily Worker. Toward midnight they read...