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Thus spake the Lord to Moses. Last week, in the dimness of innumerable U. S. tabernacles, the shofar* sounded, reminding the Jews that the world was created by God out of void and a howling darkness 5,686 years ago. The horn rang at sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good...
...Toward sundown, the stir hushed. All was ready and the imminence pressed to reveal itself. The doors of the Pontiff's apartment trembled, parted, delivered up a gorgeous procession led by a canopied sedan chair on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarii. Down vast corridors, down wide steps into the Sistine Chapel moved the procession. There the canopied chair opened and Pope Pius XI stepped out, knelt, worshipped. Entering the chair again, he had himself carried on to the entrance to the great nave of St. Peter's, his followers lowers carrying candles and chanting liturgical verses...
...Sundown. The chief impression afforded by this film is that all the cows in the world were assembled. This bovine convention purports to be the "last great Western herd," driven from the ranges by the squatter settlers, on its way to wider grazing lands in Mexico. In other words, the twilight of the old West. The idea and the purpose were commendable but the endless appearances of thousands of cows simply became monotonous. Woven roughly into the migration was the love story of the head cowboy and a girl whose cabin on the plains was wrecked in a stampede...
COBRA?Through the sundown summer season, this melodrama of the temptress Eve story twitched its tail bravely and with the coming of the new season has wriggled to renewed popularity...
During the afternoon the men rest or study, not taking the water again until 6 or 7 o'clock. This is also a six mile workout and is completed before sundown. Dinner begins at 8 o'clock and the men get only an hour after that till bedtime, which...