Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cosmopolitan community which can't be made over into a village improvement society. Here is a "bunch" of undergraduates "going in for" settlement work, teaching night schools, deeply interested in their religious societies. There is another "bunch" deep in the psychology of poker. Here is a youth burning the midnight electric light over Plato--in the Loeb Classical Library. There is "a little group of serious thinkers," hot for communism. In a few years they will be selling boots and shoes, or something equally as harmless...
Flaming Youth endeavors to establish that young men and maidens wild are going up in the smoke of their own cigarettes. It contains all the rabble of trashy devices which cinema directors employ traditionally to indicate the younger degeneration, even to the midnight bathing party. All this is un-tunate, since the story of the socially rabid mother who on her deathbed persuaded her physician to write her spirit letters of her daughter's progress, is rather ingenious. She gave the girl the combination of the safe where the letters were to be left, hoping that the reports...
Miss Esther Everett Lape, author, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy and erstwhile Democratic candidate for Vice President, sat up until midnight to receive the last plans...
Optimism pervaded the cross-country squad as it boarded the midnight Saturday, because Coaches Farrell and O'Connell and their runners believe that they will redeem the defeat by Yale by taking first place in the I. C. A. A. A. A. run this afternoon in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City...
...Tuskegee Singers, a colored quintet from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Tuskegee. Alabama will sing a group of plantation melodies and negro folk songs between 11 o'clock and midnight at the Yale-Harvard dance in the Union next Friday evening. These colored singers are making a tour of the United States and are singing at various colleges. The college from which they come was founded by Booker T. Washington...