Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been unable to arrive at any understanding as effecting wages or conditions of employment to be effective after Aug. 31, 1925. Therefore, our membership in Districts Nos. 1, 7 and 9 is advised that no contract being in effect a suspension of mining will automatically take place at midnight, Monday...
...midnight August 1, the strike?technically a mere "sus- pension" due to expiration of all existing wage agreements?began...
Louis IX, King of France, Saint Louis, who bought the crown of thorns, parts of the true cross, the holy lance; Louis, who built Sainte Chapelle; Louis, who fasted, loved sermons, heard two masses each day (dressing at midnight for matins) ; Louis, who surrounded himself with chanting priests on horseback when he traveled; Louis, who brought beggars into the back door of his palace; Louis, the ideal king of the late middle ages?his "name-day" was last week fervently sentimentally celebrated by all blind people of France. They of the Quinze Vingts, world's first refuge for the blind...
What mummery was this? Night Air Mail planes do not land on lonely Pennsylvania oat-fields at midnight without cause. Yet it could not be an accident. Night Air Mail planes do not have accidents. Uneasily, the campers gaped at their ghostly visitor...
...POOR NUT-A cheerful college tale of the midnight oil burner who suddenly flared up as the champion of the quarter mile...