Word: sundown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waterloo is a sleepy Oklahoma town, a whistle stop on the Santa Fe. Its people are mostly dirt farmers who raise wheat on the red, rolling land, or "sundown farmers" who work in the oilfields nearby. Waterloo's white frame schoolhouse can be seen from the homes of almost every one of the eight families who send their kids to school there...
...Otis William Caldwell, 77, retired education expert (at the University of Chicago and Columbia's Teachers College), author of science and biology textbooks in which he entertainingly debunked old saws (i.e., ostriches hide by burying their heads in the sand; a snake's tail never dies until sundown); in New Milford, Conn...
...Generally, according to a large body of dogma bordering on idolatry, the flag must be lowered at sundown. But there are many exceptions. It may be displayed after dark for "patriotic effect." It is flown at night from forts and naval vessels which are engaged with an enemy, and also over the east and west fronts of the Capitol Building in Washington, over the grave of Francis Scott Key in Frederick, Md., and over the war memorial at Worcester, Mass., built as an architectural dramatization of the colors...
...sundown the gals come a-pourin out of the woods for the frolic like ants out of an old log when t'other end's afire. [Then] an old Hardshell preacher* come a-walkin in out of nowhar in the dark, with his mouth mortised into his face in a shape like a mule's hoof, heels down. . . . Like all Hardshells, he was dead agin women and lovely sounds and motions and dancin and cussin and kissin. [But] the whiskey part of the frolic he had nothin agin...
That about did for the talk. Around sundown, the miners drifted home for an early meal. Then they drifted back downtown to take in bank night at the Roosevelt Theatre (prize, $180), or even the P.T.A. benefit which the Pittsburgh Civic Ballet was putting on at the high school...