Word: sundowners
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...farmer, self-educated, Publisher Thomas had a passion for information that was useful to the average man. Once a year for 54 years his almanac came forth to stir the imagination of its readers with notable anniversaries, give them the schedule of sunup and sundown, tell them the value of foreign gold...
...were growing cool. When William Allen White left Emporia with Mrs. White two weeks ago, the thermometer stood at 105° on the bleached Kansas plain; here he needed his topcoat ; the snows of October were on the way. Now elk grazed in the meadow before the house at sundown...
...monuments on the eve of the Fourth of July; the green parks of Washington dozed in the bureaucratic sun; the same great crowds of office workers swarmed from the Government buildings at 4:30 p.m.; the same old familiar groups of spies and gossipers met for cocktails at sundown; New Dealers and newly drafted industrialists were alike caught in traffic jams when sudden summer storms drenched the cab-filled streets...
...shows for the first time what excellent drumming Nick Fatool is capable of . . . "Bluin' the Blues" is another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown" has the ost sudden shift this reviewer has ever heard from Dixleland (two-four) to four-four tempo--it's worth hearing...
...half-listened. He fought to keep his heavy lids open. Towards sundown, he stretched, yawned, painfully arose, and laboriously shuffled off to the bathroom. Half an hour later-bathed, dressed and wide awake-he crouched at a low table and began eating...