Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...image of doctors muttering midnight incantations over the sufferings of mute beasts is ridiculous enough to make most non-Hearst readers laugh at the anti-vivisectionists. They should. Two years ago the anti-vivisectionists paraded a steady stream of pet-owners to the State House for hearings on the Miles-Nolan vivisection bill. They have now a marshaled stack of theological arguments, most of them stating that the merciful shall obtain mercy, and that what has been formed by God should not be deformed by man. In some places the anti-vivisectionists have become powerful enough to curtail medical research...
Guay's execution, originally set for last June 23, had been postponed because Crown authorities thought he might be needed to testify in the trial of Bombmaker Genereux Ruest, who has been ordered hanged March 16. Guay was not called, however. At midnight, all hope gone, Guay heard a special Mass, then, repeating the chaplain's prayers in a loud voice, walked unassisted to the scaffold...
...Senate had refused to show up for the swearing-in as prescribed by law and custom. After a corps of lawyers had scoured the Constitution and legal precedent, Lodge decided he could do without the rebellious Democrats, was sworn in before only the Republican House just nine minutes before midnight...
...sworn in an hour and a half ahead of the governor's inaugural, was planning (so the story went) to rush through a swatch of political appointments before Mechem could act officially. Hurriedly, Mechem took his oath in his apartment before a notary public 15 minutes after midnight, took it again twelve hours later before the chief justice of the state supreme court...
...plain, southwest-corner office on the ground floor every morning by 10. He walks to work down Seventh Avenue from his apartment in fashionable Essex House, on the edge of Central Park. He travels home for dinner by subway, returns to the Met and seldom gets home again before midnight. The strain of twelve-hour days has already made Bing look a little more drawn and grey than when he took over last summer...