Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.

He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

water boiling on the fire for washing laundry every day, the pots scoured with river sand after each meal.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

It all began on an autumn afternoon -- and who, after all these centuries, can describe the fineness of an autumn day??

He left his home the day after New Year's wearing a mackinaw and sheepskin mittens and without a hat.

If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.

However, if their United States income is not subject to the withholding of tax on wages, their returns are due June 15, 1962, if they use a calendar year, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of their fiscal year.

If you are a nonresident alien and a resident of Puerto Rico, your return is also due June 15, 1962, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of your fiscal year.

Returns of estates or trusts are due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of the tax year.

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

Day after day Fogg shuttled back and forth on his one-man air mail route, until the farmers in their snowy barnyards and the road repairmen came to recognize the stubby plane as their link with the rest of the country.

North and south, east and west, back and forth he sailed in the land-locked bay, plowing furiously forward until land appeared, then turning to repeat the process, day after day, week after week.

This does not mean, though, that a red wine improves with prolonged aeration: there is a reasonable limit -- and wines kept over to the next meal or the next day, after they have once been opened, are never as good.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

It was a cold, windy day, the day after Kitti's death, but Stanley Gilborn paid no attention to the blustery October wind.

Then, six weeks after the day Kitti first came into the office, Stanley announced he and Kitti were married.

* Earliest day on which Shrove Monday can fall, while March 8 is the latest ; celebrated on Monday before Ash Wednesday ( Christianity ), and its related observances:

In Sweden children dress up as witches and go trick-or-treating on Maundy Thursday ( the Thursday before Easter ) while Danish children dress up in various attires and go trick-or-treating on Fastelavn ( or the next day, Shrove Monday ).

Mardi gras is French for Fat Tuesday, referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which begins on Ash Wednesday ; in English the day is sometimes referred to as Shrove Tuesday, from the word shrive, meaning " confess.

In English, the day is called Shrove Tuesday, associated with the religious requirement for confession before Lent begins.

The last day of Carnival, therefore, is the " Sabato grasso " ( Shrove or Fat Saturday ).

At Shrove Monday, the last day of the carnival season, took place Baklahorani.

Eventually Pope Pius XII approved the devotion in 1958 and declared the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus as Shrove Tuesday ( the day before Ash Wednesday ) for all Catholics.

* Shrove Tuesday ( also called Mardi Gras-fat Tuesday ) precedes the first day of Lent in the Western Christian calendar.

Mardi Gras, ( French for " Fat Tuesday ", also known as Shrove Tuesday ), is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and reflection in preparation for Easter Sunday.

At any rate, the Chamberlain's Men do not appear to have suffered at all for their association with the Essex group ; they performed for the Queen on Shrove Tuesday in 1601, the day before Essex's execution.

Every feast day is preceded ( or followed, as with Shrove Tuesday followed by Ash Wednesday ) by a fast as well, in part to avoid the excessive revelry of pagan feasting without moderation.

Carnaval Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday ( by tradition, the day before Ash Wednesday ), is known as the day of the ' Voil Jeannetten ' ( literally: " the Dirty Jennies "), i. e., men dressed as women.

Shrove Tuesday ( also known as Pancake Tuesday, Pancake Day, Mardi Gras, and Fat Tuesday ) is the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.

Shrove Tuesday is the last day of " shrovetide ", somewhat analogous to the Carnival tradition that developed separately in countries of Latin Europe.

* In the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, Shrove Tuesday is commonly known as " Pancake Day " or " Pancake Tuesday " due to the tradition of eating pancakes on the day.

* On the Portuguese island of Madeira they eat Malasadas on Terça-feira Gorda ( Fat Tuesday in English ) which is also the last day of the Carnival of Madeira, the reason for making malasadas was to use up all the lard and sugar in the house, in preparation for Lent ( much in the same way the tradition of Pancake Day in the UK originated on Shrove Tuesday ), Malasadas are sold along side the Carnival of Madeira.

Užgavėnės ( Shrove Tuesday ) takes place on the day before Ash Wednesday, and is meant to urge the retreat of winter.

Shrove Tuesday is a day to be remembered by strangers in New Orleans, for that is the day for fun, frolic, and comic masquerading.

The game is played over two days on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, starting each day at 2. 00 pm and lasting until 10. 00 pm.

In Icelandic Shrove Monday is called bolludagur ( bun day ), named after the pastry.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Tuesday, October 24th, 1961, as United Nations day, calling upon all our citizens to engage in appropriate observances, demonstrating faith in the United Nations and thereby contributing to a better understanding of the aims of the United Nations throughout the land.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

The first voice heard on Channel 4's opening day of Tuesday 2 November 1982 was that of continuity announcer Paul Coia, who intoned, " Good afternoon.

This day, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins, is also known as Mardi Gras, a French phrase which translates as " Fat Tuesday " to mark the last consumption of eggs and dairy before Lent begins.

The week beginning with Easter Sunday is called Easter Week or the Octave of Easter, and each day is prefaced with " Easter ", e. g. Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, etc.

The day after that ( Tuesday ), Verdi's father took his newborn the three miles to Busseto, where the baby was recorded as Joseph Fortunin François ; the clerk wrote in French.

The Krewe of Orpheus parades on St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street in New Orleans on Lundi Gras ( Fat Monday ) — the day before Mardi Gras ( Fat Tuesday ).

* Earliest day on which Teacher's Day can fall, while May 9 is the latest ; celebrated on the Tuesday of the first full week of May.

* Earliest day on which Election Day can fall, while November 8 is the latest ; celebrated on Tuesday following the first Monday in November of every even numbered year ( United States )

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

::: In this Spanish proverb “ good ” is represented by Sunday, a festive day in Christian culture, whereas Tuesday, a week-day of less joyous character, stands for “ bad ”.

* Earliest day on which Prinsjesdag can fall, while September 21 is the latest ; celebrated on the third Tuesday in September.

The routinely scheduled portions of the sessions are normally scheduled to commence on " the Tuesday of the third week in September, counting from the first week that contains at least one working day ," as per the UN Rules of Procedure.

In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

In Spanish-speaking countries, instead of Friday, Tuesday the 13th ( martes trece ) is considered a day of bad luck.

The Greeks also consider Tuesday ( and especially the 13th ) to be an unlucky day.

This was a modification of the law made in 2005, effective since 2006 ; before then, it was November 20 regardless of the day, and all schools gave extended holidays if the day was a Tuesday or Thursday.

Self guided tours are available to the public every day except Tuesday.

In the extreme case, a prisoner who is paranoid might feel certain in his knowledge that the executioner will arrive at noon on Monday, then certain that he will come on Tuesday and so forth, thus ensuring that every day he is not hanged really is a " surprise " to him, but that the day of his hanging he was indeed expecting to be hanged.