Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canton's plentiful blind-pigs. People in bawdy-houses are seldom all asleep by 12:30, and last January 108 such houses flourished in Canton's three tougher sections, "The Badlands," "The Hole," and "Whiskey Centre." Gunmen and lords of the underworld are not asleep just after midnight. Instead that hour is the dawn of their working day. Many of these sat muttering guardedly in Canton...
Onetime Laborite Premier James Ramsay Macdonald enjoyed little sleep last week at his comfortable London home, Upper Frognal Lodge. Night after night the House of Commons resounded through wearisome post-midnight hours as the 150 Laborite M. P.'s fought and filibustered against Premier Baldwin's irresistible phalanx of 413 Conservatives. At last Mr. Macdonald suffered the ignominy of seeing his forces become so disorganized that many a hot-headed Laborite howled such unparliamentary epithets as "coward," "liar," "murderer." ( This unbridled rowdyism burst forth, of course, when the Government began to force through the Commons its long heralded...
Charles MacVeagh, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, puissant barrister, Manhattan aristocrat, became suspect last week of being a descendant of the famed "Wise Men of Gotham." The most celebrated of their acts of wisdom was dipping water with a sieve at midnight to catch the moon...
Lovey Mary (Bessie Love). An orphanage is as inevitably appealing as a cowboy love story or a midnight bathing orgy. The movies do them all. The escape from the orphanage by the recalcitrant, but terribly cute inmate, is always good. Later she settles in the Cabbage Patch, where everybody is poor but picturesque. Of its type Lovey Mary will...
Still in his plus fours, Jones thanked the officers of the club who let him hold in his hands for a moment the cup on whose silver sides his name will be inscribed. Then he caught a midnight train for Southampton, boarded the Aquitania...