Word: twilighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry is an advocate of "twilight sleep...
Painless Childbirth. Three hypodermic injections of epsom salts, one with a trace of morphine, prevented pains of 96% of 3,000 mothers delivered the past three years. The procedure may be used by any competent physician anywhere, under any conditions; is much preferable to the nitrous oxide or the "twilight sleep" technique. (Reported by Dr. James T. Gwathmey of Lying-in Hospital, Manhattan...
...dusk. They walked without animation, each to his own tune as if they were following a drum that had been silenced. Where the wall ended, a row of policemen made a stiff blue dam across the street, leaving a gap just wide enough for the passage of these twilight marchers, right foot, left foot, shoulder to shoulder...
...three o'clock, as twilight set tled over quiet Brussels, his hollow-cheeked, highbrowed, thin-haired head fell forward on his chest. He was dead...
...That bridge,' said I, exasperated beyond endurance, 'at sundown or in the twilight can be the most beautiful and the most romantic thing in the world...