Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among the big pillows reading. As the afternoon shadows lengthened, a secretary was again seen passing through the murmurous streets to the newsstands, the bookstalls. The gnomelike figure among the pillows, habituated to reading rapidly through complex business and legal documents, had used up more detective stories before sunset than most men could read in a week. "Almost a dozen," said the Associated Press reporter assigned to the case...
Just before Disraeli left the Prime Ministry in 1880 he struck definitely the tone of their correspondence thus: "Lord Beaconsfield, no longer in the sunset but in the twilight of existence, must encounter a life of anxiety and toil; but this, too, has its romance, when he remembers that he labors for the most gracious of beings...
...progressing in Ohio, Candidate Hoover got off a train at Key West, Fla. "I will make no active personal campaign," he said, "but will devote myself to my duties as head of the Department of Commerce." Then he had a hook baited, paid out his line and before sunset had caught five fat dolphin, "one of which," remarked an alert news-gatherer, "looked remarkably like Candidate Willis." As a flashing, gamey kingfish was being drawn in on the Hoover line, up swirled a shark and tore the prize away. Some thought, though none would say it, that the shark resembled...
...Georgia is proud of Governor Osborn, not merely because he is a citizen but because he is such a loyal and devoted one. His description of a sunset in south Georgia is one of the most beautiful pieces of word-painting that ever flowed from the pen of any writer. His new book-the last of a long series of serious discussions -will find a hearty welcome in this state and throughout the south...
...playing at at the Plymouth Theatre. We, for one, found it the most delightful comedy of the season. It has all that a regulation French comedy should have--except dullness. The strange behavior of a Pekinese dog, and the appearance of the conscientious secretary in a suit of sunset pajamas provided just that touch of nature that makes the whole world...