Word: sundown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conniving officials with his Texas Rangers. Khaki-clad patrolmen directed traffic, policed the suddenly quiet streets. Drinkers no longer rioted in wide-open saloons but tippled alone at home behind locked doors. Bootleggers and daughters of joy, hearing the oldtime frontier command to "get out of town by sundown," scuttled away. The women barbers changed to clothes from pajamas...
Unrocked by revolution the northwest corner of Mexico celebrated the Sabbath and St. Patrick's Day with horseracing. The animals raced from mid-morning until after sundown at varying distances for assorted purses and Golden Prince, could he talk, might have told reporters he was the happiest horse in the world. Golden Prince earned $110,000, the largest annual turf stake in the world, by winning the tenth running of the Coffroth Handicap at Tiajuana (Aunt Jane). Mexico. Golden Prince is a sleepy-looking Kentucky chestnut, a five-year-old gelding from the stables of the Sunshot Stock Farm...
...road to Tulare, Calif., one afternoon last fortnight two vehicles collided; the confusion that resulted made traffic impossible until sundown. One of the vehicles carried hives loaded with bees. Traffic officers bravely took posts at points along the road to advise motorists to take detours until dark, when the bees returned to their hives again...
Return. Soon after his third sundown in Havana, President Coolidge will ask the Texas to ferry him back to Key West...
Skjellerup's comet will be visible for the first time from Cambridge due west just at sundown on December 19, according to an announcement last night by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...