Word: sundown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doughty Plympton Street aggregation the University punsters have inevitably succumbed. Investigation has followed investigation but never has any cause been found for the defeats except the undeniable superiority of the newspapermen. Already, in anticipation of the gloom which will be its lot while all Plympton Street rejoices at sundown. Mt. Auburn street is being decked in black. The inevitable is rapidly becoming known as such...
Another time, workmen roped off a main London thoroughfare, spat on their palms, swung picks all morning, sat on the edge of the gaping asphalt to eat their lunches, continued their havoc until sundown, then returned to their colleges and usual clothes. Weeks of traffic congestion failed to reveal the hoax...
...frequently as not, the cattle owners would fail to sell their steers' at the market and would return about sundown with the whole contingent again. They would return about sundown with the whole contingent again.. They would held them through on to the Arlington road, only to eappear the next morning with undiminished vigor. The steers were a constant source of excitement, better than a big fire, if one of happened to enter a mercantile shop...
...That bridge,' said I, exasperated beyond endurance, 'at sundown or in the twilight can be the most beautiful and the most romantic thing in the world...
...like the peasants of Zitlieff, Mr. Mencken aims for truth through the application of ordeal. He would delight to see the noble folk at sundown, beating their suspects into unconsciousness before the bar of justice. This is not the ordeal, however. The ordeal is to recover consciousness. And nothing could be more systematically fitted to the American critic's haphazard dicta than the impartially unjust manner in which the natives pronounce judgment. He who comes to his senses during the night is innocent; he who awakes at dawn is guilty...