Word: sundown
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...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...
After a nasty winter (the daytime temperature dropped as low as 70°), Rio had had a hot spell. Most of the city has had only a trickle of drinking water for the last two months. The ocean is bluer and greener; the sky is red at sundown; the crowds are more amorous along Copacabana beach; the open-air streetcars are slower than ever. Smells, bugs and skin diseases have multiplied. So has griping...
...predeadline profits. The Chicago price for full-fed steers hit an alltime high of $28.40 a hundredweight, then rose another $1.60. First day this week, the torrent turned into a deluge. Trucks loaded with hogs and steers were lined up 30 blocks waiting for the yards to open. By sundown the number of steers received was approximately 40,000, just a cut or two under the famous Dust Bowl liquidations...