Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself to the train without further parley. Mr. Fiske has, like much of the existing world, written a book. The book's title is "Voices of Gold". With the pride of a father in his first-born, and a pardonable wish to instill variety, or even bite, into the Sunday evening service, he has recently filled in the space between the offering and the third hymn with readings from his book...
Blue laws may have had-their origin with the Puritans in Massachusetts, but it has remained for the twentieth century and the state of New Jersey to realize their full possibilities. The town of Westwood in that state has long been oppressed by a heartless law forbidding movies on Sundays. Last Sunday came the climax of a campaign for their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made...
...cream truck soon had its cargo disappear down the gutters. A wedding party was held up and only escaped after two hours delay. So confident in his success did Mr. Meyer become that he did not hesitate to give his wife a summons for Sunday driving. Before the irate Justice was placated the police force of six had 5000 cars in line to straighten out, and for next week Justice Meyer threatens more and better laws to enforce. At any rate he is true to his principles as a theater owner. Prevented from giving the public entertainment in the more...
...crow of the fighting cock is Porto Rico's national anthem, sung from early dawn to murmurous dusk by spur-legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned...
When laws are passed in the U. S. prohibiting Sunday golf, great is the outcry. Laws have been passed in Porto Rico prohibiting cockfighting on Sundays and on every other day. But there is no outcry, except among the politicos. The politicos lately passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little...