Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allen is a comic who helped a lot in several Scandals and other musical pieces. He is a detective in this one, forced to discover smuggled diamonds before midnight. The process of the discovery is utterly illogical-there-fore completely and amusingly suited to musical comedy...
...Their punishment shall be trousers which bag at the knees and expulsion from Major Pringle's famous fraternity, 'W. D. F.' Then along toward midnight when the various speakers have one by one fainted from exhaustion until there is a sole survivor, he should be presented with that noble combined cleaning and pressing outfit so ably exploited by the 'Valentina,' and contracts from all those freshmen who have survived...
...lived it out. And it is well for them that they do not try to keep up the pastimes of their salad days. To dance the Esmeralda in a Gibson hat, to pedal with ballooning skirts on a bicycle built for two, to play blindman's buff in midnight conservatories during dance intermissions-these are diversions that little become a shrunken or a wadded shape. Yet when a woman's sport is a man's sport-golf, for instance-she may become it like a man even after 20 or 40 years, as the players...
...each year, out of dozens of candidates, win their letter. It is much more difficult to earn an H than an A. B. All honor, then, to those who aim at one letter rather than two. An A. B. can be obtained nowadays without burning the midnight oil. But an H requires hours and hours of midnight electricity. Never, in the history of all education, has there been so arduous a night school...
...obtained nowadays without burning the midnight oil. But an H requires hours and hours of midnight electricity...