Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes must be returned before midnight Tuesday...
Pitying the cinema has attained the proportions of a national pastime. Breathes there a man with brain so dead that he has not repudiated those curly co-eds eating ice-cream cones on the campus; those red-blooded "Society folk" with midnight bathing parties; those flat-footed vampires; Will Hays? In denizens of the greater metropolis where journalistic criticism has reached the semi-intelligent stage this upturning of intellectual noses is comprehensible. But in our more rural citizens the attitude is not so easily defined...
Several hundred University students were roused out of bed after midnight last night by a four-alarm fire on Western Avenue, which seemed from all but the Freshman Dormitories to be on Soldiers Field. Starting at 11.45 o'clock, the conflagration, which nearly consumed the J. D. McPhee Company's Stairway and Cabinet factory and woodsheds, quickly gained headway. More than 2000 people witnessed the conflagration...
...watchman was employed on the premises, there was no way of determining the cause, although it is thought to have originated in an electrical short circuit. The first engines arrived at midnight, and in rapid succession more came in from firehouses in Brighton in response to the third and fourth alarms...
...newspapers, on the same night that the public went confidently to bed, were confidently going to press. At midnight almost without warning, the pressmen suddenly abandoned the presses and " tore " off the " webs," destroying the evening's work. By the next afternoon enough men had been mustered to put out eight-page editions. The reporters functioned as usual; the editors then deleted most of what was written; the paper was set up in diminutive form and run off. The " combined " heads of ten morning papers and eleven evening papers were used as a joint protection so that...