Word: nights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balance Your Budget." Today the memories of the struggle dissolve into melancholy. In the fifth month of the post-blockade "peace," Berlin is a city deserted by power, prosperity and purpose. At Tempelhof airport, where 15 big airlift transports landed every hour night & day, a few senile C-47s snooze in the autumn sunlight. On the grass between the runways, once jammed with quartermaster trucks and mobile canteens for hungry flyers, there sit stacks...
...night last April, a Mountie agent called at the parish house and told the curate that he had come for some "H" (heroin). Taillefer's superior, the pastor, was ill at the time and the curate had the run of the rectory. He told his caller that he could supply up to 800 ounces of heroin at $250 an ounce...
Grace Tully, author of the fast-selling F.D.R. My Boss, looked back on her old secretarial job with mixed emotions. "They were hard sessions," she recalled. "You worked day and night-and each night you'd go home when the birds were singing. It was that late, that early in the morning ... I wish I had those days back again...
With the Chicago Symphony, Conductor Victor de Sabata bowled over an ecstatic opening-night audience - and the critics - just as he had in Pittsburgh last year (TIME, Nov. 22). Said the Sun-Times's Felix Borowski: "By all odds . . . the most fiery of any of the conductors who have appeared here in recent years...
...Twelfth Night (by William Shakespeare; produced by Roger Stevens) has its immortal virtues-speeches filled with fragrance, bewitching songs. In Viola it has a charming heroine; in Malvolio, "sick of self-love," a monumental pompous ass. To him, as a huffing spoilsport, is addressed one of Shakespeare's crispest queries: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" To him, by a frisking clown, is tossed some of Shakespeare's tersest wisdom: "There is no darkness but ignorance." And nowhere more than in Twelfth Night can a lovely moment suddenly leap...