Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opposition seized upon a vital point, hammered it with much vigor. Some of the Games would be held on Sunday. The Calvinists held up their hands in horror, ejaculated: "How terrible!" They would support no bill that would thus desecrate the Sabbath...
...built Solomon, his workmen coming and going on silent feet, fretful lest any noise should affront the ears of the Lord. But in Washington, D. C, hammers ring all day, all week, resting only on the Sabbath. For there, to the greater glory of God, men are buiding a Cathedral, named after the city in which it stands. A year ago, the foundations were finished; and it was seen that they were good. A fund of $10,000,000 is being raised to complete the Cathedral. Money comes in; new contracts are let. It is prophesied that the sound...
...pity the Puritan parsons who set up the college at New Haven did not foresee that it was destined to have a theatre of its own and a professor of playwriting and play-acting--and imported, at that, from Harvard. Not even "the abominable habit of shaving on the Sabbath" or "the godless levity of kissing one's wife on the Lord's Day" could inspire such racy and colorful English. But in a measure the deficiency is supplied. Racy and colorful English is copiously emitted at Harvard. There is occasion for philosophy of the kind that consoled Barrett Wendell...
Monday is the newspapers' blue day. Governments, business, sport-men all having been inactive the day before, a Monday's news is scant. Aside from summaries and forecasts, it consists chiefly of the disorderly Sabbath conduct of idle folk?shootings, riotings and worse...
...Sabbath conduct of idle folk- shootings, riotings and worse...