Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived from Manila to the roaring strains of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres," and officers prepared for a long stay by looking for apartments in town. Reporters interviewed Countess Ciano, better known as Edda Mussolini, wife of the Italian Consul General. She, busy feeding Il Duce's grandson, complained that the curfew law interfered with her social engagements. In Rome her father despatched Admiral Domenico Cavagnari with a cruiser and a destroyer to help protect her and other Italians...
...list of patronesses who sponsored a farewell party for Guinan & Gang in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Paris.? This was the first, the only Guinan party at which there were no "suckers." No guest paid a cent. Guinan & Gang furnished mirth, French Line chefs a buffet supper. Curfew was at 2 a. m., earliest ever for a Guinan party. The Belmontized farewell had the effect of toning-up Guinan & Gang, but aboard the Paris her kids did a dance ("charity concert") in which each carried two fans. To the eyes of three clergymen passengers, who protested (afterward), it seemed...
...till this point the Vagabond realizes he has been engaged in purely destructive criticism. What to do about it? Well, he remembers, in his youth, a picture entitled "Curfew Shall not Ring To-Night", showing a beautiful maiden clinging to the clapper of a large church bell. On nights when the Lowell bells threaten to ring the authorities might send over to Radcliffe for nineteen beautiful maidens--but then this suggestion, too, seems to present some peculiar difficulties...
...supper hour, by candlelight, two hours before the evening carillon-curfew, the Commons Scholar from Oxford will recite a parody of 'Hiawatha' by Lewis Carroll, and other esoteric nonsense-verse. The Dunster House Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
While Berliners were free to make merry all night long in the city's pleasure spots last week because the police had neglected to re-enact the curfew law, Germany's political aspect became even more complex. Observers pondered the following puzzling developments...