Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came Samuel Bowles III, the business man, at the beginning of our new era, wherein the primary function of a newspaper is to make money. On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 15, 1878, a well-known Springfield citizen ap peared on his front porch, clad in dressing gown and carpet slippers. In his hands were the family tongs. With these he carefully picked up a tainted object which lay before him. Marching around, instead of through, the house, to avoid the possibility of contagion to holy precints, he deposited the object in the garbage can by the kitchen door. With...
...cause of offense thus bravely plucked from the eye of the world was a copy of the first issue of the Sunday Republican...
Bowles III, founder of the Sunday, acquired also an evening paper. He made money, but he likewise set standards of commercial honesty which made his paper unique. The third Bowles died with honor not many years...
...Early Sunday morning, the Coghlan, 75 miles off Ivigtut, sighted two black specks. Growing bigger and bigger, the specks became planes, whirred over the Coghland, then over the McFarland, 115 miles westward; then the Charles Ausburn, 115 miles further; then the Lawrence, 126 miles beyond. At last Admiral Magruder on the Richmond sighted two specks and ordered his ship to belch black smoke as a guiding signal. As the planes flew overhead and down to the beflagged moorings in Ice Tickle, the Richmond's siren shrieked a welcome. On a cliff overlooking the mooring place was fixed a brass...
...peculiarly fitting that a Brahms chamber-music cycle, a veritable Brahmsi-orgy, spread out over no less than two months, should have been celebrated this Summer at the "Temple of Chamber Music" at South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. Eight concerts were heard on successive Sunday afternoons, the last taking place on Aug. 31. The event was made possible by the financial devotion of Mrs. F. S. Coolidge, a real patroness, and by the artistic devotion of Maestro Willem Willeke, a real musician...