Word: sabbathed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revival of Harry Wagstaff Gribble's comedy, March Hares, was presented for the first time Sunday night. But in order to elude the Sabbath Day Alliance, it opened at midnight, so that it might immediately become Monday before there was time for action against the play...
...doubt about the interest taken in the conflict among the Irish themselves. On Monday all Dublin joined in a one-day strike as a demonstration against the spirit of militarism,--not a trolley car was moved, not a newspaper printed. In fact it might have been an Old Testament Sabbath from all accounts, save for the crowds in the streets. Furthermore, the response to an appeal from the Irish Bishops for a popular demand for the treaty has elicited little response, apparently because of the cloud of fear which is over the whole land. Even an Irishman, or at least...
...long as the law of Massachusetts forbade sports on the Sabbath, the University could hardly have acted otherwise than close its athletic equipment on the seventh day. All this has been changed with the legalizing last year of Sunday games. The University has recognized this change by keeping the squash courts open throughout the week, there being no particular reason for preventing a student from exercising on Sunday simply because he chose to play squash, rather than indulge in a back-lot baseball game...