Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rith Kodesh in Rochester. There he gradually edged his ultra-Reformed congregation back towards traditional Judaism, increased the ratio of Hebrew to English in the services, this year substituted services on Friday night (the age-old time that Jews have gone to their synagogues to greet the Sabbath) for his temple's long-established Sunday morning observances...
...that the march through Georgia and the Carolinas was of little military use. Except for Grant, U.S. military leaders have not had enough appreciation of the importance of speed, and lost many a golden opportunity by dawdling. Most horrible example: the pious Jackson, who stopped for devotions on the Sabbath...
...Stars & Stripes does not intend to change its formula, merely to offer more of it. The paper will go up to eight pages on Mondays, will not publish Sundays. The Sabbath is reserved for bluff & breezy Yank. The two papers, which are not for sale to Britain's public or soldiers, will cost the doughboys sixpence a week. Although their circulations are secret, they are unquestionably the fastest growing publications extant...
...Married A Witch (United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve this cider-&-absinthe cocktail make it more than easy to take...
What did the people say when the news of the bombing broke on the quiet Sabbath...