Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midnight Mass (Sat. 11:45 p.m., NBC-TV). From St. Patrick's Cathedral. Celebrant: Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union's expense) to wait. They slept, ate, drank, played poker, smoked cigars and just sat-until the boss should deem it appropriate to speak. The three-week coal truce was due to expire midnight...
...military men in Paris had two quick preliminary meetings. While some of his aides went dancing on Montmartre, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, burned the midnight oil in his suite at the Crillon Hotel. At the final, plenary meeting, in the Navy Ministry, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson presided in a sky-blue satin chair, before a cheerful blaze of oak logs. It took just four hours (including changes of spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called...
...little more than a noisy excuse for meretricious salesmanship, for urging one & all to buy unwanted presents for their friends, to the profit of the dollar-hungry. For a month before the Feast, the cry is: 'Buy! Adeste Fideles. Nylons for your lady! . . . It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. What came, Mummy? Santa Claus, my dar-lings.' " So writes sharp-penned Canon Bernard Iddings Bell in the current Faith and Thought, bulletin of the Episcopal faculty and students at the University of Chicago. The deChristianizing of Christmas was also troubling other Christians last week. In Milwaukee, the community...
These regulations are more lenient when the entertaining group is an authorized university organization; in this case wives and relatives of the club members are allowed at the meetings until midnight...