Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mustachioed warlords, at old Emperor William I who wiggled. Emperor William's back itched. This time barons ceased their chit-chat as from the orchestra swelled forth the great chords, low symphony of Das Rhemgold.Wagner tensed-wept in ecstasy as nothing could check storms of frenzied applause. . . . One midnight, seven years later, King Ludwig rode on a black horse alone to Wahnfried, bowed in a garden over the tomb of one of the world's greatest dramatic composers...
...attack by the Ku Klux Klan ("a boy scout movement for children of 40 ... footpads and submorons, Sir!") which was repelled and its leader, the Rev. Pudley, captured in his white skirts. Nor before Ruth and young Kendrick, within a few hours of meeting, walked in a panic summer midnight to a mad prothalamium of crickets; lay together in cool damp grass and took counsel of a Debussy moon . . . "List, sweet Moon," Ruth said, "where I learned my loving . . ." Ruth was an amateur of the living moment; she could quote poetry, swear tenderly. The eventualities aboard their pirate-schooner...
...ship news reporter for the Wall Street Journal boarded the Olympic shortly before midnight on Saturday (a fortnight ago). Soon he found his quarry-Thomas Cochran, a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., who was about to sail for Scotland to shoot grouse with, Mr. Morgan. Mr. Cochran is usually reticent (as are all partners of J. P. Morgan & Co.), but the night air of New York Harbor seemed to make him loquacious. Reporter Morton Nicholls departed from the liner with a thrill in his heart and a magnificent interview in his pocket. Mr. Cochran, whose especial proficiency...
Publisher Don Mellett of the Canton Daily News fought Canton vice and police corruption fearlessly, openly. He was shot dead after midnight in his own backyard by two patient, coldblooded, doubtless well paid slaves to crime, who aimed their rifles from behind a rosebush and made their getaway in a waiting automobile with a Canton license. The incident has led the nation to picture Canton, an ugly enough industrial town at best, as one of the largest stagnant backwaters of the Midwest's underground currents. This it may or may not be. There is a broad-beaten route between...
...Molly Stark," was ready to close, and out in a genteel residential section, Publisher Donald R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News stopped his automobile in front of his house, to unload Mrs. Mellett and their friends, the Walter Vails, who were going to have a bite of midnight supper before getting along to bed. Mrs. Mellett led the Vails inside and made for the icebox. Publisher Mellett drove his car around to the garage...