Word: sabbatarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West End is still largely restricted to matinees, but managers are seeking the Home Office's permission to stagger the curtain time of evening performances, thus avoid any blackout congestion. Managers are also seeking permission to give Sunday shows. In peacetime, Sunday shows would be howled down by Sabbatarian diehards, but England is least conservative when at war: During World War I she pushed through woman suffrage and daylight saving...
Religious opponents of calendar reform are few?"Sabbatarian" sects like the Seventh Day Adventists and pious Jews such as compose the L. S. F. S. A. P. E. C. R. Six days do they labor and do all that they have to do but the seventh they worship and rest. If one extra day alone were introduced into their year they would eventually be observing the Sabbath on weekdays while the rest of the world worked...