Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several specialty number have been arranged by the Union officials, the details of the specialty acts are being kept secret. Refreshments will be served about midnight...
...Midnight Lovers (Lewis Stone). No one would guess from the title that the heroine is a practical girl married to a nice but careless ace. The young bridegroom furnishes their apartment with War trophies, one of which explodes at an embarrassing moment while her husband is away, attending to the War. The ruin brings an interior decorator and a Bill, but the latter is not a little boy as the telegram led an eager husband to believe. Parenthood, deferred, synchronizes with more pacific interior decorations. All the explosions are not confined to the screen, for the audience went...
...Midnight March. The field commander for Colonel Garibaldi was that famed Catalonian patriot, Colonel Francisco Macia. For years he has striven to foment a revolution which should set his native Cataloniaf free from the dominance of Madrid. Last week he rode at midnight toward the Spanish frontier with a glad heart. Were not the invading 400 patriots equipped with rifles, machine guns, a medical corp, and even a strong box heavy with newly designed and minted Catalan money? All was prepared...
...discussed the perennial question of Martian inhabitants. "We are agnostics on Mars up here," he said, but obliged newsgatherers with an idea of the characteristics a Martian being would have to have to live: a hide thick enough to Stand temperature ranging 150 Fahrenheit between noon and midnight; ability to migrate from 60° North Latitude to 60° South with the seasons; lungs capable of using atmosphere as poor in oxygen as that encountered by terrestrial aviators on their highest flights and as dry as the Sahara...
...wish here to express my admiration for this weekly news periodical. The LETTERS section is a veritable "Comedie humaine." I disagree thoroughly with all of your critics; 1 enjoy your language and the manner of most all your "write-ups." The report of the Florida disaster was tremendously effective: "midnight rain came softly pattering like children's footsteps" is fine; "People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous dirge of tinkling glass" ; "creatures crept-pawed dazedly-sought kin-bodies"-what a picture! Desolation ; and then "ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses." And so on. I do not mind "famed...