Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters, an ambitious fellow he must be, although ambition is strictly against newspaper tradition, broke a story that caused more than one raised eyebrow and more than one blush on the part of Yale officials. It seems that this noble fellow was travelling one Sabbath afternoon, not so long ago along the road that leads by Gales Ferry. Whether he was out on assignment or wandering back from his Saturday night off, no one knows, but we shall give him the benefit of the doubt...
Field's is not a store to trim its sails to every wind of circumstance. It regards itself as an Institution. The shades on its great plate glass windows are drawn on the Sabbath and no advertising for the main Field store is ever seen in a Sunday newspaper. Beer is served only in the Men's Grill; hard liquor, in no Field restaurant at all. And for the benefit of Gold Coasters, whether or not they are in a buying mood, Field maintains an inventory of every kind of expensive thing...
...Benefit Board. The convention voted to merge its diffuse budgets and to combine separate education boards, but it rejected a proposal to unify four foreign missions societies, fearing that Modernists might get control and send out Modernist missionaries. The Baptists favored a progressive social program, temperance education, Prohibition legislation, Sabbath observance, a "clean-up" of radio programs. They commended pledges to be signed by individuals against joining any aggressive war. Church of God. In Jamaica, N. Y. last week arrived a bluff, hearty evangelist named Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson. Bishop and Overseer of the Church of God which claims...
...that rare season in Cambridge when Sunday afternoons are also pleasant afternoons, it is grievously unseasonable that Weld Boat House should be kept under lock and key. There are many whose only opportunity to seek the upstream zephyrs comes upon the Sabbath. Others who find themselves free to go a'rowing are turned away, and instead of gliding upon the surface of the river, must content themselves with running around it. The Charles, when it might be covered with graceful cedar craft, maintains an austere and puritanical state of isolation...
...front of a log-cabin church. But Plentiful (Contralto Gladys Swarthout) wanted to take a maiden's time and Wrestling was impatient. Pretty Marigold Sandys (Goeta Ljungberg) came to Quincy with the giddy Cavaliers. They were bent on building a Maypole, dancing on the Holy Sabbath, an offense not half so shocking to Wrestling Bradford as the fact that Marigold intended to marry Sir Gower Lackland (Tenor Edward Johnson). The wedding was half over when Wrestling strode grimly in, leading his Puritan fanatics. Sir Gower was killed, Marigold arrested. Wrestling fell asleep in the forest to dream...