Word: twilighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cabbages and Thunderbolts; Trolls, Unicorns, Twilight...
...from the soft earth under her cabbages, she fashioned him a sword and enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...
Amid the ruins of Pompeii, the Royal University of Naples celebrated its 700th anniversary by a picturesque pageant. Ancient rites of Parthenope (the Greek Naples) were staged in the twilight, including the "lampaded-romiae," wherein beautiful young women in classic drapery ran about handing symbolically from one generation to another the flaming torch of Life and Science...
Ecclesiastics have stood in the curious twilight, between Earth and Heaven, between the logical and the ineffable; between the matter-of-fact and the unutterable. They have had to decide that a man denied God, when they themselves could not define God. The seven Bishops, by common sense, found Bishop Brown to be a heretic. But, in a spiritual sense, they may secretly have agreed with their victim that, after all, there is no such thing as a heretic...
...19th Century was so prodigal. Poet, editor, author, executive, patriot, diplomat: the record of his achievements consumes more space in Who's Who in America than that of any other man, and suggests a varied career that has never brought him entirely into the limelight, or into the twilight of mediocrity...