Word: twilighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trucks career and careen along paths where on ordinary days only a desultory laundry cart is now and then to be seen. The dingy, white lumber heaps that desecrate the greensward beneath them and the elms above, give no inkling that they will look much better in company with twilight and Japanese lanterns. Now they add a minor crudity to the normal grotesqueries of the Yard...
...After I Say I'm Sorry; 4. Cherie; 5. Let's Talk About My Sweetie; 6. Do You Believe in Dreams; 7. No Fooling; 8. Cossack Love Song; 9. Say It Again; 10. Sweet and Low Down; 11. Horses; 12. I Found a Roundabout Way to Heaven; 13. Twilight Voices; 14. Just a Cottage Small; 15. Honey Bunch; 16. Georgiana; 17. Lonesome and Sorry; 18. Static Street; 19. Betty; 20. Good Night...
Stroking Steadily. Six thousand spectators strolled down to the shady shores of Lake Carnegie last week at Princeton after the Harvard ball game to watch the crew race. Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton had their eights lined up near the dam. In the shimmering twilight they pushed out from the referee's launch, the three crews rhythmically beating their way through the quiet waters. Pennsylvania took the lead. At the half mile it became evident to the colorful gallery that the conqueror of Harvard the preceding week would win as she pleased. The red and blue pressed on inexorably under...
...attempt to step from the abstract into the concrete and undertake to visualize such a teaching policy in operation in a university, a thousand difficulties arise. Few have ventured to condescend to details respecting this suggestion as far as college instruction goes. It has usually been left in that twilight zone of the abstract where we keep ideas that would be good if they could be made to work. In an article published in the Century Magazine, Alexander Mciklejohn tentatively suggested that we might find our way out of the confused wilderness of unrelated specialisms, not by any formal synthesis...
...dreamy look clouded the eyes of the old woman. "In Milan, Italy," she said, "the gypsy women are as slender as boys; their bracelets jingle as they lean over the wells at twilight...