Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midnight in Paris. Through the dark streets rushed reporters in a taxicab. The cab stopped before the U. S. Embassy. The reporters rang the doorbell and pounded on the U. S. Embassy door. A sleepy concierge came to find out what was the matter. "We want to see Ambassador Kellogg; he is visiting with Ambassador Herrick," demanded the reporters. "C'est impossible," declared the concierge. "Les Excellences se sont déjà couch...
...whole carload of beer and finer intoxicants rolled in, in connection with the scandalous midnight proceedings by authorities in Washington 30 years ago, fastening the name Rainier upon the mountain, thereby prostituting this noble mountain to be an advertising agency for a brand of intoxicating liquor; such are the two things whose memory is perpetuated in this insulting name upon America's grandest mountain ? the British marauder's atrocities and a brand of lager beer...
...reviewer bethought her of Flapdragon. Said she: ". . . . has the game gone out of fashion with seasonable snow, brown bowls of ale with roasted crabs in 'em, and night-watchmen, and the life of the great country houses. . . .? We used to play Flapdragon, I remember, as it drew to midnight, while we waited for the bells of the New Year. On the polished table in the dining-room was placed the biggest dish in the house, a crackled, oven-browned, blue-and-white Victorian with a channel and a gravy puddle at one end. On it were laid three pennies...
Patrolman Patrick Powers, of Madison, Wis., found a man on his back porch at midnight. The man ran; Patrolman Powers cried, "Halt!", took a shot in the dark, killed Peter M. Posepny, Wisconsin University undergraduate. A jury acquitted Patrolman Powers of murder. Thereupon, the Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin undergraduate paper, published an editorial allegedly written by one Wesley Dunlap, of Salt Lake City. "We should like to see the police force tremble in its boots at the approach of a student. We should like to see terror thrown into their hearts when the word 'student' is mentioned...
...between the Residency at Cairo and Downing Street, a stream of dots and dashes spelt enigmatical words which were decoded rapidly by experts. Lord Allenby, rigid, hard, unflinching disciplinarian, was making demands and recommendations; the Cabinet was considering them. Then came a telegram: "Sir Lee Stack died tonight at midnight." Next morning a code message sped to Egypt; it was a British ultimatum...