Word: whitsunday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 23, when there is no night in Sweden and the people dance around the maypoles. In England last week 500,000 people saw Blue Peter win the Derby; cars were leaving London at the rate of 48,000 an hour; railroads put on 2,500 special trains for Whitsunday; a ?5.000,000 South African loan was subscribed in 15 minutes; unemployment had decreased by 395,000 since February. In weather so exceptional the Derby was called Heatwave Derby, all young men between 20 and 21 registered for the draft, and labor's periodic stirring, signalized by recent rent...
...altar flowers on a given Sunday can express the season-white for All Saints' Day, red for Whitsunday-or they may be a memorial. . . . For instance, one Sunday the flowers at the Church of the Ascension were given in memory of a warrior son lost on the field of battle. Glorious spears of gladiolus were selected in a vivid, singing red-a most triumphant note all through the worship, that...
...Cathedral and heard mass, then walked to the palace of the Teutonic Order, then to another church to pray. When he saw troops of little girls in starched white dresses with paper flowers in their hair, it seemed a good omen. It was the first Thursday after Whitsunday, Vienna's traditional day for confirmations. Said he: "I have returned as a private person and I am glad to be able to spend the eventide of my life in the Fatherland." The Government announced that his reception in Vienna was thoroughly unofficial...
With a shrug of resignation the dispatcher at Le Bourget airdrome switched off the floodlights which had blazed through the night. From Tempelhof weary newsmen dragged themselves off to bed. At Croydon the telephone operator made a last effort to raise remote stations, silent because of Whitsunday. At Floyd Bennett Field, New York, pessimism deepened to despair. It was 40 hours since Jimmie Mattern had rocketed off the mile-long concrete runway, and there was no word of his landing. His fuel must have run out at least ten hours...