Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the War broke out in 1914 Modigliani coughed too much to be drafted. He stayed all night in the cafes, sketching for drinks, arguing passionately and with great wit. In one of the cafes he met the Polish poet Zborowski who saw that he was dying. Zborowski tried to sell some of Modigliani's canvases. But no one wanted them, so he sold a trunk full of his own clothes and took the painter to Provence for his health. He improved slightly but once back in Paris he drank again, became so undermined that when an unusual cold...
...people by feeding them cake and candy. The pigmies may then lead Jungleer Johnson to the hidden lairs of the midget red buffalo, elephant, hippopotamus where, guarded by his sharpshooting wife, he will photograph and sound-record the awesome sights and sounds of an African jungle, by day and night...
Eastern boxing arbiters regard with disfavor the roughness of towheaded middle-weight contender Ace Hudkins. They regard with suspicion the astuteness of Jack Kearns, manager of Middle-weight Champion Mickey Walker. Before Hudkins and Walker got in a ring together one cool starry night in Los Angeles last week, rumors went about that Kearns had a contract in his pocket to manage Hudkins. These rumors kept betting down, but proved unfounded as soon as Walker's first rights and lefts thudded home. Before long Hudkins' coarse face, misshapen by the beatings he is accustomed to take even when...
...Wonderful Night. Best known of Johann Strauss operas is Die Fledermaus (The Bat), which has been presented to various English-understanding audiences as Night Birds, The Merry Countess and is now offered by the Brothers Shubert under a persuasive title which suggests a Shubert burlesque or a cheap cinema. Since the humor-depending on a husband's seduction by a masked beauty who turns out to be his wife-is not certainly apparent to modern audiences, other Viennese values must be emphasized. Chief among these, of course, is the music, which the Shuberts have duly honored by hiring...
...downtown office building, No. 13 Astor Place, and told the elevator boy that he wanted to get off at the tenth floor. Smiling, happy he went down a long, dim hall, entered a little office filled with the stinging smell of turpentine which painters had finished swabbing only the night before. He noticed and was pleased with a vase of roses?"from the Executive Staff"?on a shiny new desk. He sat down at the desk. Officials swarmed in to pump his hand, felicitate him, lead him out of the office through rooms filled with craning clerks, staring stenographers...