Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equal chances of polling a majority of the votes. At the last election, only 69% of the electorate voted, the reason being that everybody realized from the start that an absolute majority of the vote could not be obtained by any party. At the forthcoming contest, which takes places Sunday, Apr. 26, a much heavier vote is predicted. This means that there are a potential twelve million votes which are an unknown quantity...
...first Sunday in Lent, mass was celebrated before great crowds. At the church steps, Patriarch Joaquín shook thousands of Mexicans by the hand, gave the needy alms, told all to "go home and tell your friends you now belong to the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Mexico." Some did. There was fighting for churches in Chilpancingo, Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Morelia, Tabasco. In some places, Government troops defended the Roman Catholics in the possession of their churches; in others, good Catholic (Roman) laymen came stoutly to the defense...
...Baldwin said good-by in a sprightly 15-minute conversation punctuated frequently by hearty laughter. Prince Henry accompanied his eldest brother to Portsmouth, but Prince George, without tonsils (TIME, Mar. 30), was not permitted by his doctors to sally forth into the raw air of a cold March. The. Sunday Times paid the Prince high tribute : "Millions of his fellow subjects in these isles will miss him as the sauce piquante of our national life...
...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...
...these fights, which resulted in the departure of the Sophomore class, is commemorated in a long satiric poem, "The Rebelliad", much admired in its day. The incident started with a food fight between the Freshmen and the Sophomores at Sunday evening Commons...