Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good fellowship: "The wardroom of the bark City of New York was a jolly place last night. The men of the Byrd expedition were writing their last letters home...
...Government informs the National Assembly that it was the intention of certain malcontents to cause a rising which was to have taken place simultaneously through the whole of Spain during last night...
...present Alexander Karageorgevitch is no kinsman of the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch. For a century past the Karageorgevitches and the Obrenovitches have been snatching from each other the throne. On the night of the murder, the Dictator-King of today was a mere student prince in St. Petersburg, and shortly after ward a page to his Tsaric majesty Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. Presumably he did not know that Lieutenant Petar Zivkovitch was about to unlock, stealthily, a palace back door in Belgrade, and admit the assassin of Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga. As a Karageorgevitch, however...
...Moon stared coldly down at Long Island last week, Elinor Smith, slim and 17, flew past his pock-marked face. His expression did not change. She whirled her biplane - a Brunner-Winkle Bird - and flew past him again, again, again. She was willing to do that all night, for she was trying for a new woman's solo record. The old record, made by one Bobby Trout on New Year's Day in California, was 12 hr., n min. After several hours, Miss Smith began to sing - every song she could remember. That was not insouciance...
...suggested .that The Nation was too solemn, and that its editor, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, ought to be taken to a night club occasionally, and shot full of synthetic hell...