Word: noon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another duty of the Plebe, an important one, is that of delivering the mail after the noon and evening meals. The "mail dragger" has a sad job. He is pestered by each man who always wants his mail as soon as it comes, and cannot wait until it is brought to his room...
...another captured guard, and said: "Prepare yourself. You're next." They let Shea go because he had been "a pretty good old plug." Daniels had offered the guards' lives as the price of free exit for himself and his four followers in the revolt which began at noon. Daniels had also demanded in repeated messages and shouted parleys that Warden Francis Eugene Crawford supply them with automobiles to drive away in. "Go to hell!" was Warden Crawford's reply each time, approved by Governor William H. Adams over the telephone from Denver. About 10 p.m., Cellhouse...
...Oyez, oyez, oyez!" will cry, for the first time since June, a dark, handsome, neatly morning-coated gentleman in the most august room in the national Capitol a few minutes after noon on the first Monday in October. "All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court...
...unanimous consent agreed to begin its daily tariff argument at11 a. m. instead of noon...
Excerpt: "We'll have most of our meals at home?it's so much nicer than eating in restaurants and hotels. And besides we don't have enough money to waste any on expensive meals and theatres. John will come home for luncheon every noon...