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...Love and Twilight. On the McGill campus, he was a legend. To students who hesitated to marry while still in school he would say: "You can afford a few household articles and a can to go to the corner for beer-what more do you need?" He wore battered hats, never seemed to rule his unruly hair. He liked to play billiards, disliked telephones (though his Montreal house was full of them), was always on bad terms with dress ties...
...windy halls were here, no balconies for strutting. Laurel and cypress shut in the rococo house; stained glass windows kept its rooms in decadent twilight. Benito Mussolini shuffled to his desk, shuffled through a morning's paper work. His three physicians-two Italians, one German-had warned him sternly: a dyspeptic Duce could not live like a lion...
...suggestions are called for. You new men will find Boston a very peculiar place. If you're the conservative or stay-at-home type, you might even call Boston "quaint." Boston is a place where civilization, faintly evident during the daylight hours, flares up for the few short twilight hours, and disappears promptly at 2400, Saturday night in particular...
...transient soldier the night before-his name was something, she recalls, like Private Ratzkywatzsky. Presently she also realizes that she is pregnant. Fond as she is of her widower Poppa (William Demarest), she knows better than to confide in him; he has the worst film temper since the twilight of the Keystone Cops. But her young sister Emily (Diana Lynn) knows precisely what Trudy must do. She must marry Norval before he knows what...
Afternoon in Jersey. "Twilight came early. Lights were turned on as the train raced smoothly southward through New Jersey. . . . The soldiers stared at the whizzing landscape, at bright-paned homes merging with descending dark. . . . They dreamed on it with hungry eyes. One lad not more than 21, his leg amputated, told the soldier across the aisle: 'Even the dump piles look swell.' The other soldier nodded: 'You ain't kiddin...