Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Sunday Professor Merriman was surprised to receive two white rabbits as a parting gift from an unknown donor. Although faint from confinement in their package, the bunnies revived quickly under the stimulus of milk and carrots, and started to tussle with Professor Merriman's two dogs...
Next day and the next New London's streets held a steady cavalcade of death. In the Pleasant Hill Cemetery shifts of workers were put to digging 400 graves. From Dallas came 200 coffins. On Saturday night almost every store except the telegraph office was deserted. On Sunday families buried their dead in a great mass funeral. Standing with the hundreds of parents on the Cemetery hillside were nurses to help the mourners who collapsed or fainted...
...Union City, N. J., Bloomington, Ill., Hollywood, Calif, and a half-dozen other U. S. towns and cities which hold some sort of Passion Play, Zion, Ill. last week set itself up for the third year as the "American Oberammergau." In Zion's rambling Shiloh Tabernacle on Palm Sunday opened the Zion Passion Play, bigger and longer than ever before. It will be performed every Sunday through June and this year for the first time the show will cost...
...however, His Holiness was generally thought to have said his last say. But the doughty Pontiff heartened his flock by rallying toward the beginning of Lent, and last week Pius XI released his 29th encyclical, a 13,000-word denunciation of Communism, suddenly and startlingly followed this on Palm Sunday with No. 30, addressed to the faithful of Germany and forecasting a rupture between the Holy See and the Third Reich...
...this was amply confirmed when the Pope dispatched to Germany a circular letter so full of dynamite that copies of it had to be delivered to the Reich clergy in the dead of night by trusted Catholic motorists and motorcyclists. Secret police confiscated a few copies but on Palm Sunday priests and bishops throughout the Reich bravely mounted their pulpits, read to the faithful the Pope's blunt rejection of Nazi doctrines of "blood and soil" and his sharp protest at Nazi violations of the concordat which the Church "with grave misgivings" had ratified in 1933 (TIME, July...