Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sabbath on December 14 will not check the festivities of the convening humorists, and the schedule for that day calls for a business meeting in the morning a lunch, at which the jazz band will again make its appearance, and a smoker in the afternoon at which entertainment will be furnished by prominent stage stars, whose identities are to be announced later...
...golfer. These breezy, non-classic, ultra-American dissertations on the Great Game are touchingly dedicated to "the immortal memory of John Henrie and Pat Rogie who at Edinburgh, in the year 1593 A. D., were imprisoned for playing of the gowf on the links of Leith every Sabbath the time of the sermonses...
...Caucasus, Sunday is called Lenin Day because the great Red Chief was buried on a Sabbath (TIME, Feb. 4). A report that Russia was to be renamed Leninia or Leninland lacked confirmation. Petrograd has already been named Leningrad (TIME, April 14). Under the Kremlin walls in Moscow excavations were made for a permanent Lenin tomb. Popular superstition has had it for many centuries that there exists an "underground Kremlin" full of priceless treasures of medieval Tsars. This has been discovered to be fact, and the Bolsheviki, having discovered many wondrous things, are fired with the hope of extracting riches undreamed...
...still hours and hours away, all good children sat primly in straight backed chairs, reading the "Lives of the Sainta" or conning the dreary pages which told of the peregrinations of Rolle and his tutor. The moving pictures had not yet been heard of, and the thought of Sabbath baseball games was still locked in the imagination of the hopelessly depraved. Reading was the universal in door sport, prescribed and supervised by parent and pulpit...
...amazed," said the Scotsman, "at a great many of my old friends saying that the Scottish Sabbath was a burden. I would like to see a state of society where every man and woman preferred the old Scotch Sabbath to the modern French one, because in that state of society you would have fine, solid, eternal foundations of character and self-command...