Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sept. 2: "It is hard to see how he can sleep at night and think of the people in many nations whom he may send to their deaths...
...echoing rotunda of the U. S. Capitol, when the last creaking footstep of the final tourist has died away, when the Capitol police unbutton collars and open night-school lawbooks, and the fat rats begin their soft scuttling around the old statues-then, says legend, the great ghosts of the U. S. past meet for nightly debate over the day's issues. One sweet autumn night last week those historic phantoms had a new historic event to talk over. For as surely as if the votes were already counted, as definitely as if the President had already signed...
...Reading. The Viceroy told her the best way to understand the American people was to attend their national political conventions. She went to both in 1936, then went coast-to-coasting in a fifth-hand Buick. To understand the Americans a little better she stopped at tourist homes at night and helped with the dishes next morning. WVS takes all her time now on a 9:45-till-anytime schedule. Her London house is closed and when she sleeps she sleeps in a West End hotel, the name of which is known only...
Chortled Mr. Churchill: "The Royal Navy ... is hunting them [U-boats] night and day, I will not say without mercy -because God forbid we should ever part company with that - but at any rate with zeal and not altogether without relish...
What smart municipal management can do with a public utility Colorado Springs citizens heard when they gathered in the city auditorium one night this week to celebrate the mortgage burning. Its symbol was on the stage: shy, onetime sheriff, Mayor George G. Birdsall, who in 18 years on the City Council has drawn no salary, has gigged the city for not a single cent of expense money. Its mouthpiece was beside him: stocky, blue-eyed onetime Utility Engineer Earl Louis Mosley, who has been the city's light and gas plant manager since it was taken over from United...