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...would ever become popular in the U. S. Of course, it has its advantages: a convenient hour when friends can come without missing their work, a dark privacy for personal grief, a hushed solemnity. But are not pomp and ostentation an integral part of most funerals and is not daylight necessary to parade their magnificence? The Negroes of the South who take long days from their field and house work to commit their dead amid lugubrious festivities are not radically different from their white masters in this respect. For both, a burial is a show which the night would shroud...
April 19?Beginning of "Summer Time'' (Daylight Saving) in England, France...
April 26?Shift to Daylight Saving Time in many a U. S. town & city...
...were young and warm and in our prime, Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead, Sleeping away the unreturning time. O Sweet, O heavy-lidded, O my love, When morning strikes her spear upon the land, And we must rise and arm us and reprove The insolent daylight with a steady hand, Be not discountenanced if the knowing know We rose from rapture but an hour...
April 10-Arrival in New York City of Japan's Prince & Princess Takamatsu. April 13-May 16-Shakespearean festival; at Stratford-on-Avon, England. April 19-Beginning of "Summer Time'' (Daylight Saving) in England, in France. April 20-Arrival in the U. S. of King Prajadhipok* and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam; at Portal, N. Dak. from Vancouver, B. C.; U. S. residence during their stay: "Ophir Hall" at Purchase, N. Y., grandiose, high-walled estate of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. April 26-Census Sunday in England. First...