Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tradition of old New Orleans, the old days. Again there are the shouts of glee of the carousing students as they flee away to the boat landings. Again there are the boomings of curfew cannon warning sailors, slaves and soldiers off the dreamy streets. Again the fortifications of the town ring with the shots of Jean and Pierre Lafitte as the two pirates bombard the village in the dead still night...
...archetype of all that is liberal and humanistic in a university. Nor is the comparison without color on many academic counts. On the social side, however, much is left unsaid. On Oxford's rule-books stand many quaint restrictions hanging over from the crabbed past-curfew hours, the wearing of gowns (however abbreviated and however disreputably tattered), places to be seen in and not to be seen in, absence from town and other critical matters. Last fortnight a little grey pamphlet made its appearance in Oxford, containing many of these old rules, resurrected from ancient domesday books and dusted...
Into Chicago evenings last week, at ten, a phantom curfew tolled. There was, of course, no actual bell, no iron clapper to send austere waves of sound across the tranquility of the Loop. There was merely an edict-the police were to arrest all children under sixteen years of age whom they found on the streets, unaccompanied by adults, between the hours...
...curfew echoes: "Splendid innovation . . . menace to personal liberty more serious than prohibition . . . protection for our daughters . . . a stupid nuisance...
...South Baden, Communists called a general strike against "new tax burdens." Three deaths were caused and hundreds of arrests were made. The strike continued. Switzerland strengthened the frontier guard and the Government of Baden proclaimed a notfallzustand (state of emergency) with a curfew...