Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Stage was the opening of negotiations last summer before the old anthracite wage contract expired at midnight Aug. 31. miners asked a 10% wage increase and the check-off (collection of union dues out of miners' pay envelopes by the operators), these demands the operators assumed a general attitude of negation. The negotiations from July 9 to Aug. 4 never reached even a bargaining stage. The deadlock was apparent and they were broken...
...contrived to remain permanently drunk. ... I experienced the greatest difficulty in trying to get a divorce, because the Soviet Divorce Commissariat closed every day at noon. ... It was impossible to get Sergei to arise and accompany me at such an hour. ... If the Commissariat had been open at midnight, he would have gone willingly...
Joanna. If you go to see this one, lay no blame here. It is cheap and purple philosophy about midnight bathing parties, why girls go wrong, and all that...
...clear winter midnight last week, a patrolman standing in the shadow of a doorway on West 42nd St., Manhattan, saw a figure proceeding irregularly toward him, now with a kittenish skip, now with a wobbling adaptation of a popular dance-step, now with a stride that sagged curiously sideways. The patrolman stepped out of shadow. The night-wanderer raised a hand in genial recognition...
Fortunately the mistake occurred only in the first ("midnight") edition of the Times; the readers who were shocked were all dwellers in the provinces...