Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister Euler in the prow of the rumrunner with the U. S. Customs House ahead: "Do you often cross in the daytime as well as at night...
...Night in Venice. With this revue the Brothers Shubert administer their customary antidote to city summer and complete a trilogy which was begun in past summers with A Night in Paris and continued with A Night in Spain. Again the Shuberts have felt no great obligation to their chosen title?the Venice pictured would be far less familiar to a gondolier than it would to an oldtime Keith vaudeville subscriber. There are some tricornered hats, languid rhythms, a Benvenuto Cellini fantasy, but by far the most electric portions of the entertainment occur in modern two-a-day tempo and setting...
More wonderful for its massive tonal quality than for its artistic brilliance was the singing of the 4,000. The roof that has often reverberated with mass advice to fisticuffers, bicycle riders, marathon dancers, reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus...
...Manhattan Bridge, the stranger said: "It's a fine night, isn't it?" Answered James Albrecht, an out-of-a-job printer: "Kind of chilly, don't you think?" "Per-haps," said the stranger, "But just look at that beautiful moon." The next thing the stranger said was "Goodbye, good luck and God bless you." As he said this he was falling through the dark air into the river...
Last week he was in Manhattan. He had hop-skipped there from Los Angeles, with a night's stop-over and sleep at Dallas. His purpose was to get eastern money to join his own in forming a new transcontinental airline?Southern Skylines...