Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writing of Grant Wood's painting Midnight Ride of Paul Revere in your March 1 issue, you say ". . . it lacks every grace save precision and is as meticulous in execution as a Flemish altarpiece." Perhaps, but no horse . . . ever galloped with his two front legs stretched out in front and his two hind legs extending to the rear...
...nearly midnight when a fast-moving, youthful figure muffled in a trench coat bounced up the steps and rang the doorbell at Joe McCarthy's brightly lighted house on Capitol Hill. The door opened to admit Roy Cohn, 27, the chief counsel of McCarthy's Permanent Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. A few moments later, Cohn emerged with McCarthy, and the two talked in low tones as they walked Joe's five-month-old Doberman pinscher up and down C Street...
...approximately 500 Yardlings who replied to the Union Committee poll, more than 360 said they would study in Lamont if it were open on Sundays. In addition, more than 100 said they would use the library from 10 p.m. to midnight each weekday...
More people were paying more federal income taxes than ever before. Last year was the most prosperous year in U.S. history; the income-tax rate stayed steady and high through the year. Some 60 million personal returns, accounting for $32.5 billion, will blizzard into Internal Revenue offices before midnight March 15. Also rolling in by that hour will be some 8,000,000 corporate returns, the most ever, accounting for a record $22.9 billion...
...dynamite bast set off by a recently expelled Guatemalan Harvard student near Dunster Bridge in Cambridge, rallied about 500 undergraduates to a "free Puerto rice, free Guatemala" demonstration last night. The riot began at about 10:30 and lasted until midnight...