Word: curfews
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...supper hour, by candlelight, two hours before the evening carillon-curfew, the Commons Scholar from Oxford will recite a parody of 'Hiawatha' by Lewis Carroll, and other esoteric nonsense-verse. The Dunster House Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
While Berliners were free to make merry all night long in the city's pleasure spots last week because the police had neglected to re-enact the curfew law, Germany's political aspect became even more complex. Observers pondered the following puzzling developments...
...Nassau County, N. Y. the district attorney threatened to proceed against Curtiss-Wright Airport and Roosevelt Field as public nuisances because residents complained that planes droning over their rooftops at all hours of the night made sleep impossible. The matter was settled by the field managers agreeing to a curfew of 11 p. m. in summer, 10 p. m. in other seasons. Night flying, they explained, is a Department of Commerce requisite for student flyers in qualifying for advanced ratings...