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...clock Summer Time, the very end of the long northern twilight when he circled the grounds of Dungavel. He zoomed his plane a few thousand feet, then bailed out. Bullet holes were found in the tail of his wrecked plane later...
Although the Transcript came to symbolize the twilight of New England's culture, Boston remembered also that the Transcript had once symbolized the flowering of that culture. Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Thoreau had been its contributors ; it had had one of the first women editors in U.S. journalism; had introduced the first women's page, the first church page. Above all it had become as inseparably part of New England traditions as Faneuil Hall or the Tea Party...
...anyone but the most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
East of Singapore. Earlier victims told of shuttling back & forth across the South Seas in their below-decks prison, while they heard the guns above them hammering away at new game. The Turakina went down about twilight, bathed in flames, but not until two-thirds of her 58-man crew had been killed. The Komata took eight German shells amidships, which killed the chief officer and wounded the captain, when her radio operator defied orders to close down his wireless. The Rangitane was trapped by the raider's searchlight, sank flaming, with the loss of 13 crew members...
Under that established twilight...