Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type of newspaper feature-writers in Washington known to other newsmen as "the butter brigade," the "New Patriots" are food and drink. Upon "New Patriot" careers these journalistic biographers seize to produce Sunday "human interest" articles, in which the "New Patriot" is extolled out of all bounds, his "sacrifice" overemphasized, his Federal service gilded with excessive promise...
...Francisco's season began last fortnight, in San Mateo's cool Woodland Theatre. At eight Sunday concerts, five eminent conductors-Bernardino Molinari, Alfred Hertz, Eugene Goossens, Ernest Bloch, Bruno Walter-will in turn lead the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra...
Next day, Sunday, under a threatening sky and the scrutiny of more than 5,000 pairs of eyes, Jones and Espinosa, having taken their wives to church, played together. Almost casually Jones scored 372 while Espinosa struggled around to a shocking 84. That really decided the matter but the rules called for another 18 holes. Jones treated the gallery to a dazzling 69, which he later called his "most perfect round.'' while Espinosa struggled around again, this time...
...activities are manifold. It maintains a drumfire of publicity in behalf of Prohibition. Its representatives appear before Congressional committees for Dry legislation, against Wet proposals. It classifies Congressmen according to their voting record on Prohibition. It favors or opposes presidential appointees on the basis of "public morals." It agitates Sunday closing laws, book and cinema censorship. It supplies debaters to uphold the Dry side of any Prohibition argument. It compiles Sunday School textbooks, temperance leaflets for Epworth Leagues, pledges Negro school children to total abstinence...
Commenting more seriously on the shriveled reputation of the French academies, the Paris Sunday newspaper Dimanche Illustré issued a questionnaire to discover from its readers "an ideal Academy of France...