Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, with Dennis presumably out of the way, 37-year-old Christine made final plans to fly to Brussels and join her old wartime companion Andrew Kowerski, now Major Andrew Kennedy of British Intelligence. At midnight, after dining with a few friends, she went back to her hotel. She had just started upstairs when she heard her name called. She turned around, began talking to the man who addressed her. Then the night porter heard her scream: "Get him off me!" The porter and two other men rushed up, but too late. There on the floor at the foot...
Thornton, whose botany was not so sharp as his sense of the picturesque, insisted that his artists give each flower a romantically appropriate setting: Dutch meadows for the tulips, mountain heights for the kalmia, a forbidding coast for the American cowslip, a gothic midnight for the night-blowing cereus. If the results have more period charm than truth-to-nature, it is partly because flowers are among the most difficult challenges a painter can pick. Flowers are delicate as eyelids, complex as blood vessels, vital as fire, and their colors make paint look muddy by comparison. Yet artists-an ambitious...
...Class of '52, a quart of a century away from their big reunion were having a time last right, to clustered in the Lowell Courtyard an dressed in formal attire, almost 1000 them and their dates danced to the music of Blue Barron and his orchestra had a midnight supper, and stayed a until 2 in the morning savoring that last nights at college Today they will file into the Tercentenary Theatre to Class Day exercised, and top the day of with a moonlight cruise aboard the Boston Belle in 'Boston Harbor...
...seniors this evening will be making their own whoopee. Their spread, described in the schedule as "the brightest evening of the week" will begin in the Lowell courtyard at 10 p.m. to the music of Blue Barron and his orchestra. It includes a formal dance and a midnight supper, and will move lustily along until...
After all the music was done, the crowd sat for two hours while the judges made up their minds. At midnight 75-year-old Queen Elisabeth smilingly took her place in the royal box, and the 13 judges trooped to the stage. Amid tumultuous cheers, the winners were announced: Leon Fleisher, first; Switzerland's Karl Engel, second; Italy's Maria Tipo, third...