Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studded gilt room staring at the ceiling through grey, opaque eyes; smoking long, thin Turkish cigarettes. Some men called him the Sphynx; he called himself Napoleon. It was shortly after he had announced that the Empire meant peace that France drifted into the Crimean War out of whose dreary twilight the world hears only one sweet note, a Nightingale's. Today at 12, Professor Langer will lecture in Harvard 6 upon how the Crimean War came about...
...cosmopolite. Mr. Hersey has the great gift of combining the country of which he talks with the characters about which the authors have written. The result is that Tess lives her tragic life before you, and you pause with Mr. Hersey to watch the straggler on the read at twilight while the heath embrowns itself against...
...TWILIGHT OF A GOD. He couldn't die, who never lived. So he outlived his day. From his place in the car cards he looked down, each day, upon a rising tide of soft shirts. At last they engulfed him completely and he was swept away. His passing is viewed with mixed feeling...
...Professor Wegener's 50th birthday. A few gentle cheers of Hoch and Gesundheit were swallowed by the Greenland silence; then, a solemn shaking of hands all around, a hollowly hopeful Auf Wiedersehen; and Professor Wegener and Rasmus sledged westward into the Arctic twilight...
...lies in his coffin provides ideal material for Browning. He has done a good job with it, especially with the settings in a madhouse and in cellars. Bela Lugosi, who made a success in Dracula on the Manhattan stage, takes the leading role. As the scenes flash in twilight, accompanied by such noises as wolves howling, bats screeching, and women screaming, Lugosi, in the form of a huge bat, flits in and out of the windows of Carfax Abbey, close to which most of the action takes place. Dracula is an exciting melodrama, not as good as it ought...