Word: twilighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal the most, for the present at least, to the literary instincts of Harvard men. An average of 100, letters a day left the Cambridge station for Wellesley ladies between the hours of 9, and 3 o'clock each day. Letters which were the creations of inspirations of the twilight hour or evening left Cambridge through the central station, where their numbers could not be detected...
...hostage from the enemy's country, but she came loving the young Prince Avito and kindness could not make her a faithful wife. Blind men see but Fiora did not know. His still eyes saw her first at dawn sending her lover out through the terrace, then at twilight in his arms, forgetting Manfredo who might have won her with his charity had he not ridden off again to war. He crept up on her, seized her with his bony hands, hurt her till she should tell her lover's name and strangled her when she dared defy...
...shots of the gaping wound in the port stabilizer had been obtained. Somewhere near the Harlem River the ship dipped her nose?notice of an impending countermarch?and turned. Through the tweedy haze she followed the Hudson and was lost to view in a brace of minutes. It was twilight when the Zeppelin, her cabin lights aglow, settled to a lower level. Lady Grace Drummond Hay peered from a window, cried, "Hello," waved her hand. The landing crew, 450 in number, grasped the landing lines, slowly drew the ship to the ground. Four years to the day it was since...
...parents. Further the Princess is not of imperial blood which formerly would have made her unfit for the Prince's hand. For these reasons and because they had married for love, like the reigning Emperor Hirohito (TIME, Feb. 4, 1924), the new Imperial couple symbolize the twilight end of ancient Japanese marriage customs, and point to the rising sun of modernity in Japan...
...Congo." Strong, hearty, cheerful, white men have not seldom emerged from a journey through the Pigmy Forest with hair turned white and mind temporarily unhinged by its stark terror. Darkness. The Great Forest is always dark. So prodigious is the foliage that even at high noon deep twilight reigns. Jungle. The mass of tangled, choking creepers must be chopped through at every step, and actually closes behind the explorer within 48 hours, so that if he would retrace his steps he must again chop. Ooze. Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze...