Word: curfew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prince slyly eyed a school friend and asked: "Don't you think it's a bit too early for me to be tied down with a wife?" Onetime U.S. Vice Viceroy Charles ("Lucky") Luciano went to Rome to plead with bureaucrats for a cancellation of the curfew order that keeps him holed up in his Naples apartment from dusk to dawn (TIME, Nov. 29). After cooling his heels in a hall for five hours, Lucky had a ten-minute audience with Interior Ministry officials. He came out hopping mad; the bureaucrats had not let him speak, instead stared...
Some of the 350 Takarazuka girls are daughters of early members. They live in the Takarazuka Operatic School for Girls, which fatherly Impresario Kobayashi runs with a strict, decorous hand (no dating, pupils to leave the school only in pairs, weekday curfew at 7). To teach them their musical trade, the girls are given a solid year of voice, ballet, Japanese Western dancing, English. After a year, they are graduated to the chorus (pay: 10,000 yen a month, or $27.77). The 30 stars make ten times that much. The girls wear blue jeans, sweaters, and horsetail hairdos in school...
...most debated issues at Yale now is not something legal--but something illegal. This year a set of stringent parietal rules has gone into effect. Previously no one quite knew what the rules were, and rather than check with a dean, everyone simply forgot there was a curfew. This situation lasted until an indignant student complained to the dean that a policeman had broken up his five a.m. party. New rules, of course, resulted, prompting indignant letters to the Yale Daily News as well as a Law School "League of Reaction...
Campus leaders that could be reached at noon today strongly protested the arbitrariness of the President and Deans in imposing a 7 p. m. curfew on post game Club life...
...Dartmouth host becomes so entangled in conversation with his date that he forgets the deadline, he must pay his penalty. (A charge of $10 is made for the first hour past curfew, and $1 for each additional hour...