Word: twilighter
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...Twilight lasts all a summer's night in the Baltic countries. The air becomes heavy with dreams. Sometimes the nobility roam abroad troubled or sleep in peace under the stars, like peasants. They feel a change upon their world which philosophers say is more than the passing of the seasons. A twilight is falling, some say, upon the feudal order of things...
Emotional sequences proceed with similar distinctness, subtle as the Russians, lucid as the French. Twilight is the tragedy of Dietz von Egloff driven to suicide by his thirst for a real fate among peers immured by aristocratic routine. He takes the wife, then the life, of his best friend. From Fastrade, whom he loves, he can evoke nothing but pity. She takes his body home through a spring morning with birds and sunlight making a festival of death...
...drear London twilight last week the old Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, slowly paraded into Church House at Westminister.† With him was the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Anglican Archbishop of York and Primate of England; and behind them entered 300 high dignitaries of their Church of England, gay in vestment, sombre in feature...
...time Detroit manager and star, had just signed with the Philadelphia Athletics for a consideration reported as $60,000. Tristram Speaker, onetime Cleveland manager and star, had just signed with the Washington Senators for a consideration reported as $50,000. Since these two players, admittedly in the late twilight of their careers, had been adjudged of such value, Mr. Ruth was considered cheap at various salaries up to $1,000,000 per year. It was predicted that the New York owners would revise...
...soon after Mr. McKinley's death as it was proper to do so. He had done his work well. Mr. Gage had but two honorary degrees-one from Beloit, one from New York University. He disliked public office and detested politics. He liked business, and, after that, the twilight. He dignified both...