Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substantiation; nor is the average college student supposed to wander from the histrionics of Keiths revenues and the Metropolitan. There are however a few devotees of the opera who have succumbed to the allurements of a college education. To them the solution is the old and expensive one the midnight to New York...
Isadora Duncan, danseuse: "A year after the opera bouffe suicide of my young poet-husband, Sergei Yessenin (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), I too determined to kill myself-or so my friends said last week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves...
...manuscripts must be mailed to the Intercollegiate Literary Contest Harper's Magazine, 49 East 33rd Street, New York City, not later than midnight on March 5, 1927. Each manuscript must be typewritten, must bear the name and address of the author, and must be accompanied by a self-adressed envelope bearing sufficient stamps for the return of the manuscript...
...midnight hope was abandoned. At 1 a. m. Death was a matter of moments. At 1:25 a. m. His Imperial Majesty, Yoshihito Haru-no-miya, found rest at last...
Fire ate up Ely Court, fashionable school for finishing young ladies, at Greenwich, Conn. Red tongues danced upon a rooftree and gobbled earthward far faster than firemen could pump water from a nearby lake. Fleeing with such midnight garments and belongings as they could snatch up, the owners and principals, Miss Elizabeth Ely and her sister, Mrs. Sara (sic) Parsons, could only give thanks that none but themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses...