Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stripped him of his clothes, paraded him 200 yards through the main streets to a telegraph pole. A rope jerked Ratliff off the ground, broke, let him down with a thump. Under the code of the Old West, when a lynching rope broke, the victim was freed. Eastland that night did not follow the Old West's code. Fifteen terrible minutes passed before a new grass rope was produced. Up went Ratliff a second time...
...Then he reminded me of a night when we had a frugal supper together in a Bloomsbury restaurant?it must have been 40 years ago?when he was a medical student and I was a city clerk. Our combined wealth was insufficient to save us from walking as far as Holloway station...
...Could any of you, with all your capacity to forecast, then have said to both of us: 'Gentlemen, you will bid each other good night tonight at the corner of Holloway station, and it will be your fate not to meet again until invited as guests of His Majesty to partake of his hospitality at Buckingham Palace...
...years he has gone to bed fully dressed, merely kicking off his slippers and loosening his collar. "Because how do I know at what moment I may get up and write?" The iron will had begun to melt when at last he let the Sister put him into night clothes...
...Through night, another day, and far into the next night, the indomitable Father of Victory lived on. With groping motions he made clear, in his lucid moments, that he wished his hands?the famous Tiger claws, cased day and night in kitten-soft grey gloves?to be held by the two men who were perhaps his closest, dearest, most faithful friends, Albert, his valet, Francois, his chauffeur...