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...taper, tall enough to burn for 24 hours, flickers in memory of the dead. The pious abstain from food, drink and all other gratifications of material desires, from one sunset until three stars may be seen in the heavens the following night. God is balancing his books for the year. In the home it is well to examine one's soul; in the synagog to chant "Kol Nidre" petitioning forgiveness for vows made and inadvertently unfulfilled...
...star shines in the sky, near to Vega, the chief component of the Lyre. It is easily seen just after sunset, sinking in the west; but it shares with the Big and Little Dippers the peculiarity of never setting in latitudes north of plus 45 degrees...
...star is being observed at the Oak Ridge station of the Harvard Observatory in the Northwest after sunset and in the Northeast just before sunrise with photometrie, spectroscopic, and photo-electric apparatus. It is observed visually, photographically and spectroscope fealty at the Cambridge station...
...thousands of churches throughout the land this Sunday, devout Catholics will drop 1? in a plate in the vestibule, help themselves to copies of a magazine named Catholic Missions. On its rotogravure cover they behold a sea-&-sunset scene captioned: "Enchanted Isles. In the islands of the South Seas 1,566 missioner priests, brothers and nuns are laboring efficiently among 1,835,030 natives." Thumbing through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese...
...What do you think of American women?" Beccali blushed, and embarrassedly refused to answer. But the journalists pushed the point, and Beccali suddenly grinned and blurted out, "The women have their place in Italy and we put them there." Then he subsided and displayed an example of an Italian sunset, only breaking his silence to say briefly that, yes, the Italian women use lipstick and makeup...