Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sabbath...
...right to presuppose that the Sabbath means more to them than one service and that they have tried to grasp the real spirit...
...Scholars shall, at Sunset in the evening preceding the Lord's Day, retire to their chambers, and not unnecessarily leave them; and all disorders on said evenings shall be punished as violations of the Sabbath are. And every Scholar, on the Lord's Day, shall carefully apply himself to the Duties of Religion and Piety. And whosoever shall profane said Day by unnecessary Business or Visiting, Walking on the Common, or in the Streets or Fields in the town of Cambridge, or by any sort of Diversion before sunset shall be fined 10 shillings...
...public's taste for the elemental, the passionate primitive. Mr. Enwright is to be complimented on the success with which he has composed and executed his sheet without falling back on the usual resources of the journalist, news. And so, with evening comes the Transcript and with the Sabbath--the Telegram...
...meal, not to keep any overnight. "But some of them left it until the morning and it bred worms and stank." Moses was vexed. The Lord's instructions had been to gather a two-day supply on Fridays so as not to have to work on the Sabbath. This they did, kept it over Friday night, and lo, "it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein...