Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Providence, R. I., and in the half-dozen towns surrounding, the whisper softly passed around. In smart houses it caused slight comment. But in little houses where shirt-sleeved fathers read the papers every night by the centre table, the whisper was tense, freighted with excitement. "Elphege Daignault will repent. The neighbors told...
...long as one is in a state of interior solitude, one can introspect almost anywhere-walking along a crowded street, in a sunny meadow, in a room where typewriters are banging, in a room alone with a fire, in bed in the morning or just before falling asleep at night...
...Every night last week groups of workingmen, mostly Italians, stood at the corner of 109th street and Second avenue, Manhattan, gazing across the street at the windows of the City Trust Co. They wondered what, if anything, their bankbooks might be worth. On the windows were posted notices that the state banking department had taken possession of the bank. Back of the closed doors bank examiners checked books and investments and balances. Perhaps the bank was "broke...
...Literary Digest ever dull or heavy? Not for a minute! It's aflame with interest on every page. Through the electric blaze of night and the white light of day the Literary Digest stands close to the flaming forge of life, and out of the glowing heat of a world's mighty labors and strivings-its thrilling adventures and achievements, its heroism, its drama, and its passionate discussions-it brings you, week by week, each burning deed and thought...
...Paris première of Poor Richard will be on the night of March 22, 1929, not an anniversary of anything but, roughly speaking, the Sesquicentennial of B. Franklin's arrival in Paris. The play, by Playwright Louis Evan Shipman of Manhattan will be the first by a modern U.S. author ever presented...