Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every corner of the U. S., in Shanghai, Moscow and along the Riviera, which "came in brass across the harbor of Singapore from the boats riding at anchor there"?Alexander's Ragtime Band. Within four years more, he had written hundreds of other successful songs, including When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam, Everybody's Doin' It Now, I Want To Be in Dixie, At the Devil's Ball, the score of a Ziegfeld Follies and two eminently successful musical comedies. In 1917, he wrote a bugle song...
Once upon a midnight dreary...
Edmonds is President of the Advocate and has been on the board for three years. He also won the Thayer Prize last year with his story, "St. Bon and the Organist of Midnight Mass" which appeared in the Christmas number of the 1923 Advocate...
During off-season at Holden that is, all year except during the spring lectures, midnight raids on the "medical museum" were one of the most popular diversions of enterprising undergraduates who frequently used the spoils to decorate their rooms...
...Significance. Elegant roguery on the high seas; brigs putting in from Guinea at midnight with no riding-lights; blackamoors wailing in gyves under iron hatches; these things - no more than sinister rumors to the orderly citizen of 1825 - are familiar enough to all modern worthies who do any reading. They undergo, in this volume, a fastidious renaissance. Unlike many writers of "period" fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times...