Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worth lend their names to unpopular causes, observers are apt to look closely to see if they can discover some value, hitherto overlooked, in the thing advocated. Among unpopular issues, one of the least favored is the campaign of certain churchmen to close all theatres, playgrounds, amusement parks on Sundays, and limit the amusement of the public to churchgoing, which these churchmen consider amusement enough. Last week the "Lord's Day alliance," as these churchmen call their association, held its annual meeting in Manhattan, appointed a committee to report judges and county officials who belittle Sunday laws, commended Postmaster...
...Portadown, Ulster, the Rev. W. P. Nicholson costumed himself to preach his Sunday sermon. He rolled his trousers up to his knees, exposing two fine stretches of fatted calf. He unbuttoned his shirt, baring a chest mottled with a biblical growth of curly hair. Then he mounted his pulpit. "I want to show the girls," he announced to his gasping, giggling, shrinking congregation, "how they look to others when . . . they wear short, sleeveless, low-necked frocks. I strongly . . . condemn such costumes. They bring tears to the eyes of the girls' elders...
President and Mrs. Lowell will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at their House, 17 Quincy Street tomorrow and on Sunday, December 27, between 4 and 6 o'clock...
...tangled. Time and again the tailor across from the Lampoon has been obliged to remove pieces of automobile from his window and shop. Indeed he is now building new steps to withstand the assaults of duelling autoists. The old ones supported many a truck in its expiring moments. No Sunday passes without leaving its tell of broken glass and bits of nuts and bolts strewn all the way from Arthur's door to Russell Hall...
...that automobile and pedestrain traffic is taken care of at the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and Plympton St. I have been the witness of six or seven accidents there and have seen the results of many others, and with the accident of a week ago Sunday in which a Hudson coach was overturned and two people injured, one of them very seriously, I have come to the conclusion that either the Traffic Department is originally negligent, or that the danger of this corner has been overlooked in the zeal of the force in playing little jokes on the student...