Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among mankind. But last week, instead of scurrying into caves or cellars, mankind made merry and flocked to the totality belt for observation, lay and scientific. In the British Isles there were eclipse houseparties and a national holiday. Scandinavians, accustomed to staying up late at this season of the midnight sun, redoubled their nocturnal festivities to view a sight that will not again be seen by most of Europe until 1961, by England until...
...Capital is still where a plump forefinger placed it; and last week His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, fittingly upheld there the dignity of the Crown by presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...
...Wouldn't it be nice," said Mrs. Manhattanite to her husband, "if we could go to the theatre tonight and at midnight you could fly to Chicago in time for that conference tomorrow morning...
...hearing proceeded from 10 a.m. until midnight, almost without a break. Then Assassin Kovenko was sentenced to life imprisonment, the Court, however, recommending that this be commuted to 15 years. In Moscow. Promptly, the Soviet Workers' Gazette, Moscow, headlined: "Unheard-of mild sentence, which Kovenko hears with beaming face. Murder for which the Polish Government is responsible covered by Polish court...
...which Seniors and their families will turn their steps after the last of the confetti has been thrown in the Stadium this afternoon. The CRIMSON spread will begin at 5.30 o'clock, immediately after the afternoon celebration, but, unlike the greater number of other spreads, it will continue until midnight...