Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frenzied search for a new title this show was known as Palm Beach Girl and, at the last moment as No Foolin'. Beneath this inconspicuous nomenclature lies a show bursting with opulence. On the opening night it played till midnight. It showed dozens of gorgeous scenes, scores of glorified girls, countless songs and scenes. So great was the supply of everything that the mind wearied and the tastes grew tired. One wished that Mr. Ziegfeld had condensed his entertainment. Such condensation will unquestionably occur before ten days are gone...
Leading the rest in point of authority is a spinster of 50, the last crisp leaf of a Dutch-American tree, incredibly wealthy, intellectual, unable to sleep until dawn and therefore noted for midnight suppers from which her guests escape with difficulty. Her private musicians fill the remaining night hours with concerts from esoteric composers, to which she listens with "the finest contrapuntal ear of her day." It is she, Elizabeth Grier, ever alert for novelty, who attaches the young New Englander to the Cabala and involves him in its members' affairs...
...Species of young human male to be found in mixed company from noon to midnight and after. He is lavish in his attention to dress, complexion, repartee, new dance steps, light refreshment. The name which newspaper readers have sickened of seeing for several years, without fully understanding it, is thought to have originated in Washington or farther south, deriving from the species' propensity for tea, cakes and soda-fountain goodies...
...their way to points of expected unrest. Soon afterward civilian volunteer organizations, long ago prepared against just such an emergency by prominent Conservatives,** began to function for the maintenance of indispensable industries. The Government announced that, in these circumstances, famine conditions were not imminent. Ominously the hours drew nearer midnight...
...land and sea transport services, the mines, most heavy manufacturing and the building trades. Last week these men, together with "the army of unemployed workers" (rarely fewer than a million strong in the British Isles since 1920), thought chiefly in terms of hours, shillings, bread and shelter, as that midnight approached...