Word: sundown
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Nurse Betty Gow, whom the baby called "Gow,"identified the body in the Trenton morgue before sundown. More positive identification came from the Lindberghs' pediatrician. He recognized the child's abnormally twisted toes...
Because of Lady Bessborough's frail health, the special train of the Governor General proceeded by fits & starts from Halifax to Ottawa (958 miles), halting at sundown, speeding...
...four hours was their secret. No secretary was present. The principals themselves, after gentle insistence by Lord Irwin, scribbled their own notes. Optimism bounded as the midget made a hurried exit, saying: "I am satisfied, even optimistic. But I must hurry. If I don't get home before sundown, I must fast tonight"-for it is Mr. Gandhi's rule to eat but once a day, never at night, and he had taken Lord Irwin on an empty stomach. Twice more, last week, the "friends" met. Once the Viceroy sent around to Mr. Gandhi's lodgings...
...correspondent and illustrator. Because he was not content to gather his news at Havana cafe tables, he was arrested, imprisoned four times. "The spiggoties," says he, "slammed me into the cooler . . . put me away with the rats and the Cubans and deliberated whether to shoot me at dawn or sundown...
This year stalwart Jerusalem Jews collected bludgeons, rocks and in a few cases firearms, to carry under their talithim (praying shawls) as they went at sundown to begin the Fast of Ab. Edward Keith-Roach, British district commissioner of Jerusalem, knew this was going on. He ordered admonishing posters prepared and had them fixed to walls. The work was done on Thursday so as not to offend Moslems by having Moslem employes work on Friday, their Sabbath, or by having Jews work on Saturday, their sabbath. His own sabbath, Sunday, was nerve-wracking...