Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion of the one hour hour vigil, the Harvard students were served refreshments by the victorious party leaders participated in the jubilance that the voting returns evoked, and boarded the subway once more, most of them having had their first taste of practical politics...
...Dublin, Mrs. Fitzmaurice put Baby Pat to bed, and kept an all-night vigil...
That evening, Mr. Duvall ordered a burly police squad to guard "Mayor" Holmes's office against invasion by "Mayor" Negley. When "Mayor" Negley arrived in the morning, he found that "Mayor" Holmes had gone out for breakfast after an early morning vigil. Mrs. Holmes sat in her husband's chair, jealously immovable. "Mayor" Negley eyed her dubiously and loitered around the office. In his pocket he had a court injunction, temporarily restraining "Mayor" Holmes from functioning...
When night comes down on the eastern U. S., a row of bright eyes reaching from the Atlantic coast over the Alleghenies to the Great Lakes, begins a vigil that lasts till dawn. Motoring through the mountains you come to these eyes one by one, 10 to 25 miles apart. They are searchlights and all night they sweep the sky in steady circles, their narrow shafts swinging around heaven from anchorages on hilltops. For miles ahead you watch one, catching its brief flash as the beam swings high over your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving...
...Lenox Hill Hospital. There was an operation for appendicitis, and a few days later, a minor operation. Then, in the small hours of the Tuesday before Christmas his grandniece and five business lieutenants gathered at the bedside of an unconscious man, 71 years old, and began the vigil which Death ended at dawn...