Word: daylighted
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...this did not mean that President Hoover was not vitally interested in all that went on at the conference. On its opening day, he arose before daylight, put on a bulky sweater, a pair of old trousers and sneakers, went down into the china room in the White House basement.* There his medicine-ball playfellows awaited him around a radio loudspeaker. In attentive silence the President sat listening to the address of George V, King and Emperor. When the program from London was over, the President arose, remarked upon the clarity of the reception but not upon its substance...
...Vagabond has had a fellow-feeling for these Princeton scrubs ever since the inception of the House Plan. And he feels that, in the present pause between the dark and the daylight, he may be allowed a little moralizing...
...Like a rabbit in the outstretched arms of a magician, Grand Admiral Yang Shu-chuang, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, vanished in broad daylight last week at Foochow...
Long before New Year's daylight John W. Hunefeld arose in his Washington home on C street, put on his salt-and-pepper suit, breakfasted quickly, and set forth through dark streets for the White House. He would do no odd jobs of painting and-carpentering that day. He was going to meet the President...
...dead body of a man, stripped to his underclothes. . . . Thus this thriller, in the somewhat old-fashioned English manner: plenty of atmosphere and a well-defined trail, with the red herrings a little brightly colored. Two characters stand out with pleasant eccentricity: old Mr. Hubbleby, who spends the daylight hours of his vacation riding to and from London on express trains, sleeping at home every night; Pithecanthropus Smith, who is no believer in Sherlock Holmes. Says he: "Detectives frequently have to ask questions which seem impertinent at first, and prove irrelevant at last...