Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sundays, Wall Street is usually deserted. Therefore, Sunday, Sept. 21, was selected for moving day. The police established deadlines three blocks away from both buildings; 37 armored Adams Express cars and a guard of 300 armed men were mobilized and a careful plan of operations was perfected. By Sunday midnight the moving was completed with entire success...
...watercolor painting; Emily played the violin. Katherine Louise Emily Willoughby had to reconcile the talents, passions, ambitions of these people. So she adopted the accurate sobriquet, Unity, and spent her life trying to make it fit. She married a man, Brian Jessup, who went in swimming drunk, at midnight, in Sidney, Australia. She married an automaton, Michael Lord Mowbray, of whom she felt she was unworthy because he could not understand her. But only Adrian Gore, the man with the grey eyes, could give her Unity. This book is the elegant elaboration of a somewhat frayed psychological formula. It fails...
...Performance. The action was merely suggested, never carried out. The actors sang in shrill, piercing falsetto voices, displaying incredible endurance. Most of the principals were relieved by their understudies before the evening was over?except the prima donna, who carried on until midnight. The stage manager came out occasionally and told the audience what all the action was about. a stage hand moved on and off with tables, chairs and other props, as the "scene" changed. The costumes were the last word in Eastern sumptuousness; they were said to cost $500 apiece. There was no scenery...
...long light period and are beginning to see stars at night. Donald Mix, our radio operator, is now operating nightly from midnight to 3 a. m. eastern standard time, on 175 metres. So you may expect full details of our trip soon by radio...
...with a married man. Instead, her father whisked her away to the open spaces, where a heartily disapproving young engineer (Jack Holt) went to her rescue down the rapids. The opening phases of the film are struck off with the old rubber stamp. There was even the midnight bathing-party, at which everyone got drunk and hurled the fat guest into the pool for comedy. But comedy ceased when the man and the woman were hurled into the canyon rapids. From that point forth, the adventure gained in entertainment values...