Word: curfew
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Twelve-hour curfew was enforced in Jerusalem. Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv. The British battle-cruiser Repulse steamed into Haifa Harbor, landed marines. Eleven air squadrons stood by for bombing work. From Egypt arrived 1,600 British soldiers. With violence continuing, the British ordered the nth Hussars, an armored-car regiment, from Egypt to reinforce the 10,000 soldiers, police and constabulary...
...conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs and "goon squads...
...curfew tolled the knell of parting night...
...matters more pleasant than the football match. Soon into my party clothes and with F . . . to dine at Leverett. How the spirit of the navy has worked changes! Lighthouses in the Leverett windows and salty coils of rope dangling from the music platform. On with the dance till midnight curfew told us we were indeed yet in Boston and must still pay homage to the Puritan. Back in the tower, warm with the dance and warmer with the wine, to fall back and dream of operas and sports, of Gilbert and rows of men in blue coats...
...which was coming as inevitably as Death. As soon as the street trenches were finished they were manned with taxi drivers, shop clerks, bricklayers, shoemakers, who were ordered to stay at their posts, eating and sleeping there until the attack on Madrid should come. A rigid 11 p. m. curfew was clamped on the capital. Every light went out. even privileged newshawks being forbidden in the streets. For a few paralyzing hours word flashed through the city that White bombers had broken the rail line to Valencia. that Madrid was completely cut off. German and Italian aviators, the only people...