"Date line" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you call that thing?" Tomaso pointed a slender, brown finger at a circular heading, whereon a pink aeroplane did a "nose dive" toward the date line through ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... of his conclusion, if it were needed, came the next morning in a copy of the New York Monitor, Churchill's paper, which contained on its front page a long, double-leaded despatch, under a Milwaukee date line. It was Hobart who brought it in to Mr. Grayson and his little ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... city's oldest families, that a family breach was healed at the death of our sister, or the general points of whatever it is that makes us interesting to the paper's circulation. We are likely to have a date line and a brief despatch from Rome, or Savannah, or wherever we happen to be when we shuffle off, stating that we have done so. This to be followed by a "shirt-tail dash." Then begins a beautifully dispassionate and highly dignified recital of the salient facts ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... quarter of the century in which we write the figures "1" and "8" in every date line, the steam railroad has, to a very large extent, put out of joint the nose of the steamboat, just as, at the present time, we are threatened with so complete a revolution in travel and motive power as to warrant a prediction that, long before another quarter of a century has ...
— My Native Land • James Cox
... the evening when the boy handed me three envelopes. I read the first two and threw them on the floor. Without glancing at the date line I read ...
— John Henry Smith - A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life • Frederick Upham Adams
... students at Burrton who never subscribed to a daily paper and seldom read one. He kept up with the news of the world by dropping into Walter's room and hearing him dribble out the events of the day from a New York daily which Walter took. The edition reached Burrton eight hours after the date line. ...
— The High Calling • Charles M. Sheldon |
