Word: sundowners
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...nearly sundown before Washington was reached and Pennsylvania Avenue was filled from end to end with this citizen army. His spurs clinked loudly as General Butler strode into President Roosevelt's study. "Mr. President," barked the general, "I have 500,000 men outside who want peace but want something more. I wish you to remove Cordell Hull as Secretary of State...
...manner suitable to her fortune" ($2,800,000), provide a Roman Catholic governess who would instruct her in her mother's faith.* Gloria should never be taken out of New York State. She should visit her mother every week from 10 a. m. Saturday to sundown Sunday, the entire month of July and from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. on Christmas Day. This arrangement should continue until Gloria was 21 unless any party concerned should meantime show the Court good cause for change. With the decision Justice Carew and Mrs. Whitney were ready to call quits...
...From sundown to sundown the devout turned their talus-wrapped shoulders and bowed heads toward the East in dutiful prayer. Then, as the ram's horn sounded Yom Kippur's end, Yorkville Jews scurried back to their stores for reassurance. On the front windows of more than 50 of them they found scratched in six-inch letters the word...
...runs the full length of the broad brick and cobblestoned Embarcadero and is owned and operated by the State were spotted to screen the pier while police cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads had been moved safely to a nearby warehouse. Strikers, 3,000 strong, failed to stop the movement. Police fought them off with tear gas, firemen with streams of water. Heads were broken, 26 men were injured, but the only trucks stopped were those of some non-combatants...
...drowsy mind (for not of this world is the Vagabond) toyed with the fantasy of peaceful fields, of mountain lakes, disturbed only by the ripple of leaping fish, of shaded paths, of ferns bejewelled with dew at midday. He had often sat on warm rocks after sundown in the spring and listened to the first feeble cheeps of triumphant infant frogs. He remembered that he had thought it the victorious cry of consciousness, the first cry of life, the harbinger of gentle summer evenings...