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...TWILIGHT ON THE DANUBE-F. C. Weiskopf-Knopf...
Outstanding feature of the shifts was that they involved no elderly admirals who had learned to fly in the twilight of their careers, but high-octane aviators who had been in the game since its early days. It looked like the best break for naval aviation in 30 years...
...equipment (trucks, tractors, jeeps, etc.). Camp Canol, at its peak a roaring movie set of a place populated with black-bearded men and an occasional ginghamed girl, is today a ghost town where a lonely watchman lives and only a single curl of smoke reaches skyward in the early twilight...
...such once-helpful bits as Carriage fares, and Hot Ashes to Resuscitate the Drowned. The style of its Farmer's Calendar has changed with the times ("Follow your markets closely by radio . . ."). But its index is still a key to rustic and rare information: Feasts and Fasts, Movable; Twilight, Length of; Zodiac, Signs...
...drugged himself with Napoleonic dreams of military prowess and imaginary victories on the Princeton football field. He was haunted by adolescent disappointments, such as having lost the presidency of a sophomore club and not having gone over seas in the war. He described himself as a man "standing at twilight on a deserted range, with an empty rifle in [his] hands and the targets down...