Word: midday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food was not provided. The next morning she raised a great storm on the lake, and when she came to shore she began to slaughter the men of the Fiana who were assembled there. One hundred and one persons she took at a gulp, and before midday she had finished off more than half the men of the Fiana. She swallowed the son of the King of Greece, and the son of the Fiana's captain, Finn Mac Cool. Thereupon that hero gave a sudden rush, gripped the monster by one of her joints, and flipped her over...
...operatic picture. It shows one of those young men who work half-naked on the reconstruction projects, overcome by the midday sun and lying full-length on the turf. A nearby woman eyes him pityingly as though he were dead. . . . The young man really is dead, but it is not important...
...Ford, had his Negro chauffeur drive him home for lunch. At 48 Alf Landon has begun to joke with friends about his growing paunch, but he blames that on his lack of time for as much exercise as he used to get. He always eats light at midday, gives the stream of political writers and politically-minded citizens who have lately been pouring in on him a standard two-course luncheon. When a political correspondent arrived in midafternoon, Nancy Jo and Jack Landon were squabbling over a tricycle. Out on the big, semicircular front porch, with its comfortable swing, blue...
Peons may sleep a midday siesta, but not a midmorning. Believe it or not, we Mexicans have to work for a living just as you Americans do. Unfortunately we have no "relief...
Last week Springfield's Midday Luncheon Club and Governor Henry Homer of Illinois decided to do an extraordinary honor to the memory of Springfield's greatest citizen, Abraham Lincoln. To Governor Horner's mansion for dinner went a distinguished gathering including Secretary Ickes and Governor Talmadge. They met, shook hands, turned away. Af- terward the members and guests of the Midday Luncheon Club assembled in a high-school auditorium for a special treat. On the platform, a handsome lectern bore a large portrait of Lincoln. Out to the speakers' seats marched Governor Horner, Secretary Ickes, Governor...