Word: sundowners
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...sundown, Davy Jones boarded the ship through a hawse pipe. Grinning, Harry Truman found himself indicted as "a vile landlubber and a pollywog . . . .in that, knowing full well that there are no party politics in this absolute monarchy, you are guilty of practicing the same, this crime being further aggravated by your being a Democrat...
...Hempstead, N.Y., the Town Board passed a new ordinance: henceforward, after sundown, horses must be equipped with head and tail lights...
That was a year ago, and Miller's fame spread through the Georgia backcountry. Last fortnight he got up another shout in Summerville, a county seat in the northwest corner of the state. It started just before sundown, and by 10:30 the moaning and shouting and singing were going strong. Then Preacher Miller brought out the "salvation cocktail." He shouted: "Brother Davis, do you believe in the power of the Lord great enough to take what's in this bottle?" Farmer Ernest Davis, 34, grabbed the glass, took several gulps...
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...