Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which was coming as inevitably as Death. As soon as the street trenches were finished they were manned with taxi drivers, shop clerks, bricklayers, shoemakers, who were ordered to stay at their posts, eating and sleeping there until the attack on Madrid should come. A rigid 11 p. m. curfew was clamped on the capital. Every light went out. even privileged newshawks being forbidden in the streets. For a few paralyzing hours word flashed through the city that White bombers had broken the rail line to Valencia. that Madrid was completely cut off. German and Italian aviators, the only people...
...gaiety with Mr. Pickett, the merchant, and his lively daughter, Rose. The college buildings lighted to proclaim the occasion and Cambridge filled with visitors. A marvel it was to see the throng a happy yet well-mannered. Austin, Jr., along again, and back with him to Hollis before the curfew telled at ten. Soon into bed, tired from merry-making, to dream dreams of purlian ancestors founding a "schoale or college...
...wasn't the only athlete to break training rules or stay up after the curfew sounded. There were at least a hundred offenders. . . . [Why] condemn me because I was unwilling to make a secret of the fact that I like champagne. . . . Officers accompanying the team who were presumed to be setting a good example . . . failed to do so. Cocktail parties were a nightly occurrence...
...Place. Philadelphia paid $200,000 to get the Convention and a chance to make good as a place of gaiety. Its 2 a. m. curfew law was suspended. In direct violation of State liquor laws, downtown restaurants and hotel bars sold liquor on Sunday. An obliging magistrate stayed open all night within three blocks of Convention Hall to release visitors who forced themselves into the hands of police. True to Democratic tradition, the delegates were a far more boisterous, fiery, tempestuous crowd than Republicans ever were. Two out of every three of them were political officeholders or Party workers...
Moving fast. Premier-Botanist Tosheff had 30 Army officers. 30 politicians jailed on charges of high treason. Martial law was declared, Sofia's streets were cleared at rifle point after a 10 p. m. curfew, and the Cabinet stayed on in session getting telephone reports from police headquarters on new arrests until the total had reached 255, including former Premier Colonel Gueorguieff and a delegation of returned Bulgarian exiles from Yugoslavia...