Word: sunday
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Anna Putriuniate, 17, native of Lithuania, dressmaker in Montreal, Canada, wanted to become a resident of the U. S. She paid a man $50 to show her how. He took her one Sunday night to the gorge dam at Niagara Falls, lowered her by a rope to the trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping, treacherous skirts. She reached U. S. soil. Last week she was arrested...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra will give a varied program of classical and popular numbers at the Harvard Club of Boston, Sunday evening at 8.15 o'clock. The numbers to be presented are: "Triumph March" Beethoven "Egmont Overture" Beethoven "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn "March from 'Aida'" Verdi "Woodland Sketches" MacDowell "Rustle of Spring" Sinding "Narcissus" Nevin
...time the first diver went down on Sunday, December 18, and heard tappings from the torpedo room, why did he not connect up the air-hose then...
...final lecture of the series will be given on Sunday, March 11, by the Right Reverend John T. Dallas, Bishop of New Hampshire who will speak on "The Religion of College men." These lectures are open to members of the University but not to the general public...
...pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century" in his favorite newspaper.* That the night, dressed in heroic robes, he enters the oaken door of a temple and becomes Sir Knight Errant of the Mystic Order of Granada. Sunday, on the golf links, he tells his companions: "I got a birdie here last week," instead of the oldtime "I shot a buffalo here." After his labors, he dreams over an advertisement: "To live at American Venice is to quaff the very Wine of Life. ... A turquoise lagoon under...