Word: sabbathed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy...
...first time I came to America I had four Sunday performances and a more miserable engagement I never fulfilled. I felt I was doing something against my religion, something which I had been taught by my mother was wrong. It was unnatural for me to work on the Sabbath and I felt ashamed...
...century ago, all bemoaning the younger, generation, the spread of lawlessness, immorality, irreligion--in fact the conventional topics of the modern reformer. Thus from the annals of 1829 one learns the sad state of affairs: "And what of our youth? Today where one child hails with delight the Sabbath as the day for Bible study, one hundred young immortals are growing up in ignorance and sin." And no less pernicious is the morale of 1843--"It is clear that instead of the unasses of our people improving they are degenerating...
...Overseers reported that "Freshmen, as well as others, are seen in great numbers going into town on Sabbath mornings to provide breakfast." Here is the prototype of the modern student, rumpled and unshaven, sallying forth into Harvard Square on Sunday morning for his "Times" and toast. But the defection from Commons proved so general and so violent, that gentler laws were passed, permitting the hungry to seek elsewhere for their sustenance, and it is no doubt from the passage of these laws that the growth of the present facilities dates...
...loyal Times readers, after reading this statement, took out their pencils and did a bit of arithmetic. The New York Times, they decided, must make from daily sales a gross income of $1,500,000 a year, in addition to its Sabbath income of $30,000 a week (about $1,500,000 a year). Therefore, these inquisitive readers decided, their favorite newspaper's annual civic income is not much above $3,000,000 and the balance of the $25,000,000 must come from advertisers. "And 95 per cent of the total earnings," said the editorial, "have been reinvested...