Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-five and fifty years ago, on Sunday afternoon, when next week's lesson had been learned and tea time was still hours and hours away, all good children sat primly in straight backed chairs, reading the "Lives of the Sainta" or conning the dreary pages which told of the peregrinations of Rolle and his tutor. The moving pictures had not yet been heard of, and the thought of Sabbath baseball games was still locked in the imagination of the hopelessly depraved. Reading was the universal in door sport, prescribed and supervised by parent and pulpit...
Nowadays, however, the routine has changed perceptibly; after breakfast the question of the precocious daughter is no longer, "Mamma, ought I be starting for Sunday school?", but "Hey! Daddy's swiped my nibble!" The college education of parents, too, which in spite of Mr. Bertrand Russell's opinion to the contrary is genuinely liberal, has created an atmosphere of surprising toleration and intelligence in the home if they wish to read poetry on the day of rest, instead of exercising, modern children, resort no longer to Lewis Carroll and R. L. S. They turn for mental nourishment to the subtle...
Empire Day (May 24), birthday of Queen Victoria, and since 1903 a patriotic holiday, passed off with the usual parades and numerous renditions of Rule Britannia and God Save the King. The following Sunday, a great thanksgiving service was held in the stadium of the British Empire Exhibition. King George and Queen Mary attended in state; numerous symbolic processions filed past them; one was led by the Archbishop of Canterbury and some half dozen Bishops...
...Maresch to retail for $1.75. "Persons walk the streets with receivers adjusted to their ears, hear concerts, news and political speeches." In Dallas, it was announced that "Texas has a new club whose members never see each other's faces." The North Texas Radio Phone Club meets on Sunday afternoons; "each member answers to roll call, speaks in turn while the others listen in." In London, it was announced that the possibility of transmitting radio messages in a "beam"* between England and Australia is "likely to be demonstrated soon...
William R. Hearst acquired his 24th newspaper?or, counting his Sunday editions, his 39th. He bought the San Antonio Light, his second newspaper in Texas, his 15th newspaper to have membership in the Associated Press. The reported price was $600,000. There are now ten states in which he owns two or more newspapers. His web is spreading...