Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, 89, Victorian poet who at 16 wrote the famed Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight;* of heart disease; in San Diego...
...Curfew will not ring tonight...
Secret Police. Members of the military tribunals which will try all Loyalists accused of various and sundry "crimes" arrived in Madrid soon after Franco's troops. An 8 p. m. curfew was clamped down; in many a Spanish home the knock of the secret police was momentarily expected and feared. Far from forgetting the Loyalist excesses of the last two-and-a-half years, Nationalist Spain was in a mood for wholesale reprisal and punishment. The new Government's authorities claimed that 250,000 of their sympathizers had been murdered by the Loyalists; they wanted "justice" in each...
Walter Hastings residents contend that any laxity in enforcing the 7 o'clock feminine curfew in the past was net so much due to deliberate winking on the part of the authorities, as to the absence of anyone to enforce the rule...
...originally interpreted, the curfew law would have put a clamper on noctural excursions for nearly 40 16-year-old Yardlings...