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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will find "Don't Be That Way" and "If Dreams Come True" in full splendor; "Dodging The Dean is made up of "Blue Skies" (Benny Goodman's arrangement) and "How Am I To Know"; "Study in Green" bears strange resemblances to one of Glenn Miller's riff tunes; "Midnight in Madhouse" has a large chunk of Ambrose's "Night Ride" present; "Chant of the Jungle" is an almost exact carbon of the old Casa Loma arrangement; these are just a few of Mr. Clinton's attempts at being original. Benny Goodman imitates Count Basic; but at least...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...giving in to the pleas of their organizers and of James Moriarty, State Commissioner of Labor, 300 cooks and waitresses last night voted to report for duty as usual this morning. In view of gains made in yesterday's negotiations, they extended the deadline for a "satisfactory contract" from midnight last night to noon Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINING HALL STRIKE POSTPONED 36 HOURS | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...encountered unfeeling opposition at the Law School, too. One midnight, doubtlessly absorbed in the beauties of some unborn symphony, he burst out of his room in one of the Law School dormitories and demanded a piano. He was politely informed that a piano was not available at that time of night. In keeping with his Marxian ideas of property, he then asked to be taken where there was a piano. This demand conflicted with the legal conscience of the Law School men, and he was sent back to his room to brood on the injustice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

Trip 6 got away safely from Medford, Ore. after midnight, with seven radio ranges, their beams running in four quadrants, to guide him to Oakland. But at Medford, Stead had already made his first blunder. He failed to fill his gasoline tanks. From Medford, on instruments, against a heavy headwind and an hour behind schedule, he went down the south leg of the Fort Jones range, passed the Red Bluff localizer, reported that the Sacramento range was drowning out the Williams beam (which ground stations reported was operating without interference). Then, for almost an hour, Trip 6 was silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Woody Herman's Band of Raymor fame will play at the Kirkland House dance next Friday night. The dance, which is the Deacons' way of preparing for the Yale meets on Saturday, will be formal and will last from nine to two with a buffet supper at midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Plans Dance | 3/1/1939 | See Source »

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