Word: twilighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ters as a peculiarly private account of his great-great-grandfather's charms and indiscretions rather than as an important literary discovery. Successful where other collectors had failed, Colonel Isham took the suitcase to the safe-deposit vaults of the Guaranty Trust Co. where, in an ivory twilight that smelled of oil and steel, he showed all his treasure to hungry newsgatherers...
...vitae or other dark and ponderous fibre, rolled down into India, over the Himalayas, through the hot, level borders of Persia onto the deck of a Spanish boat, over the blue waving turf of the Mediterranean, through Spain to England. Here, half the world away from China, yokels at twilight gathered on a sward, awninged by oak trees, bordered by oak-beamed cottages, breathed hard and bent over to twirl great wooden spheres-bowls, they called them in England...
...time since 1900, the moon's course last week intersected the imaginary line between the earth and the sun at a point close enough to the earth, so that the sun was blotted from the sight of earth-dwellers. The moon's shadow, an oval patch of twilight some 40 miles wide, fell first on the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland, sweeping across Liverpool and Hartlepool to the North Sea, across Scandinavia and Siberia, disappearing over the Aleutian Islands off Alaska...
...heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales...
...Walt Whitman Foundation of its plan to establish "a liberal college of arts and sciences" in memory of the poet. One of the aims of the college will be to help modern U. S. poets obtain publication of their works. Camden was where Poet Whitman spent the twilight of his life...