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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.

day and Whit
* Earliest date on which Whit Monday can fall, while June 14 is the latest ; celebrated on the day after Pentecost.
* Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday – the day after Pentecost
In the United Kingdom the day is known as Whit Monday, and was a bank holiday until 1967 when it was replaced by the Spring Bank Holiday.
Whit Monday, the day after Whitsun, remained a holiday in the UK until 1971 when the movable holiday was replaced with the fixed Spring Bank Holiday in late May.
The following day is Whit Monday, a name coined to supersede the form Monday in Whitsun-week used by John Wycliffe and others.
Thomas Becket ( 1118 – 70 ) was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury on the Sunday after Whit Sunday, and his first act was to ordain that the day of his consecration should be held as a new festival in honour of the Holy Trinity.
Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday ( also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit ) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a movable feast in the Christian calendar.
Whit Monday gets its English name for following " Whitsun ", the day that became one of the three baptismal seasons.
In many of these countries, Whit Monday is known as " the second day of Pentecost " or " the second Whitsun ".
In the Eastern Orthodox Church Whit Monday is known as " Monday of the Holy Spirit " or " Day of the Holy Spirit " and is the first day of the afterfeast of Pentecost, being dedicated specifically to the honor of God the Holy Spirit and particularly to the historical event of his descent on the holy apostles on Pentecost.
Cook named the islands as he believed he passed through the area on the Christian festival day of Whit Sunday.
The plays were then expanded into a three day cycle on Whit Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
As Parliament recessed for the Whit Week bank holiday on May 22, the next day Benjamin Scott, anti-vice campaigner and the chamberlain of the City of London, went to see W. T.

day and Sunday
If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
The next day, Sunday, the hangover reminded Haney where he had been the night before.
The only day they `` have a chance to compete with large supermarkets is on Sunday '', the council's resolution said.
But the next day -- Sunday.
* National Peacekeepers ' Day, celebrated on Sunday closest to the day ( Canada )
) In the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite and in the Anglican Communion, All Souls Day is instead transferred, whenever 2 November falls on a Sunday, to the next day, 3 November.
* Earliest day on which International Friendship Day can fall, celebrated on the first Sunday of August.
* The Herbstmarkt ( autumn market ), another Sunday shopping day, is on the first weekend in October.
* Earliest day on which Melon Day can fall, while August 14 is the latest ; celebrated on the second Sunday in August.
* Earliest day on which Turkmen Racing Horse Festival can fall, while April 30 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Sunday in April.
A blue law is a type of law, typically found in the United States, Scandinavia and, formerly, in Canada, designed to enforce religious standards, particularly the observance of Sunday as a day of worship or rest, and a restriction on Sunday shopping.
Traditional forms of hunting on Sunday are illegal, except for raccoons which may be pursued until 2 a. m., hunting on licensed hunting preserves, use of dogs all day to hunt bear, raccoon and fox.
Much like on the U. S., alcoholic beverages in Chile are not sold on Sunday mornings, while on election days their sale is prohibited by law during the entire day ( starting the Saturday before ).
Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.
The concept of a secular day of rest, not directly related to a religious day of rest, has been cited as justification for retention of restrictions on commercial activity on Sunday.
It approved the state's blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended to serve " to provide a uniform day of rest for all citizens " on a secular basis and to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest.
Though only a minority of the population, the movement rebelled on Sunday 7 December, the day after the news of the coup arrived.
* Bloody Sunday ( 1900 ), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War, South Africa
* Bloody Sunday ( 1920 ), a day of violence in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish War of Independence

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