Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers last week was that war had completely stalled Europe's $3,000,000-a-year commercial broadcasting business, conducted mainly from Luxembourg and Normandy for British audiences, who get no commercials from their BBC. Big day for Radio Luxembourg, Radio Normandie and other "outlaw" stations has been Sunday, when the prim BBC goes completely Sabbath. On Sundays, the "outlaws" used to pour forth musical and variety programs acted and recorded in London and air-expressed to the foreign transmitters, briskly dinning Britishers with radio commodities like Alka-Seltzer, Lux, Pepsodent, Kraft Cheese. For a Sunday hour, Luxembourg...
Peace through the troubled waters safely into the harbour of tranquillity and better times." Even more confident of peace was Edward Lyndoe in The People: "Anyone who listens to, and believes, this War-by-the-end-of-August rubbish is beyond hope." In the Sunday Chronicle Petulengro said: "News from Germany will again cause concern, but the planets ruling this country will smooth over the difficulties...
...Naylor, who predicted the war two years before it happened, said it would last approximately four years. He introduced astrology to London's press in 1930, now enjoys what is said to be the biggest private practice in England. This time Naylor, writing for the Sunday Express, was too cautious to foretell war or peace. But last week he gave his opinion of war's outcome: "It will end suddenly and for reasons no man can know or foresee. The centre of government will shift to Canada eventually...
Around Joe Howard, Producer Rinker built up for CBS a show called Gay Nineties Revue, in which, every Sunday evening since July, grey old Joe has been barking up the gaslit atmosphere of Tony Pastor's and the spirit of Maggie Cline. Joe sings his own songs, hails such ghostly patrons as Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Lily Langtry, David Warfield, Lew Dockstader and the Madison Wheelmen, while a good, corny music-hall ensemble vamps till the performers are ready with standbys like Daisy Bell, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl...
...headline in London's Sunday Express. Datelining their dispatches "Somewhere in Surrey," or "on the Cambridgeshire-Northants border," correspondents reported that 1,000,000 city children were busy fishing, blackberrying, golfing, bathing, enjoying many another unaccustomed treat...