Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late year about this time, when the students sit on the steps in the twilight smoking, when their lady friends sit with them in open cars, when all music is a waltz, when the little girls tie blue ribbons in their pigtails, and older sisters walk together laughing in the darkness. It was when shouting ragamuffins go roller skating up the street, and older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press in, when a roommate borrows the car to go to Wellesley, when the debutantes read poetry, when the moon is a soft, golden cartwheel...
Fortnight ago their vigilance was rewarded. Stoky rented Ravello's Villa Cimbrone for a month, and less than a week later he was joined by stately, bobbed-haired Greta Louvisa Gustafsson (Greta Garbo's real name). Soon romantic villagers were clacking of arm-in-arm walks in twilight, unabashed embraces...
...games, his 90 shutouts, 16 in one season (an all-time record), his 28 victories in his first year of big-league baseball (1911). But last week "Old Pete" was managing a hotel ball team called the Springfield Empires-a station he had reached via the characteristic twilight trail from major-league to minor-league to semi-pro baseball, including an interval of barnstorming with the bearded House of David troupe...
...before, however, in a private sale, William Strang himself received the highest price actually paid this year-$20,000 for Twilight Song (2:01¼), champion 2-year-old of 1936. Alleged buyer: Italy's Benito Mussolini. For to this year's Old Glory Sale came European agents who effected the biggest exodus of U. S. harness horses since the turn of the Century. To Austria, Germany, France and Italy went 58 horses of the finest blood lines in the U. S. Italy was the biggest buyer, obviously intent on getting the finest stock at any price...
...musical line, Messrs Gordon and Ravel score in a small way with "Swing Is Here To Stay" and "I've Got My Heart Set on You." Raymond Scott and his quintet beat out "Twilight in Turkey" with intestinal fortitude in spite of two sinuous dancing girls who hardly do the tune justice...