Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

To them he could have been the broken bell in the church tower which rang before and after Mass, and at noon, and at six each evening -- its tone, repetitive, monotonous, never breaking the boredom of the streets.

She had changed into a cocktail dress, and the whole evening should have been before her, but already she was beginning to get a tight feeling at the back of her neck.

Two days later on the 23 October, Herb Hannum, a friend from an earlier trip, noticed how sick Thomas looked and suggested an appointment with Feltenstein before the performances of Under Milk Wood that evening.

There are also parallels ( though no direct connection ) between the easter egg tradition and the celebration of Passover in Judaism, notable because in Christian tradition, Christ was celebrating Passover with his disciples on the evening before Good Friday.

The day before, or the evening before, a holiday, such as:

The Fajr prayer is performed before sunrise, Zuhr is performed in the midday after the sun has surpassed its highest above you, Asar is the evening prayer before sunset, Maghrib is the evening prayer after sunset and Isha is the night prayer.

It wasn't until the celebratory banquet that evening that Hurst realised he had scored a hat-trick, assuming that the final whistle had been blown before he'd struck the ball into the net for his third goal.

The word Halloween was first used in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows '- Even (" evening "), that is, the night before All Hallows ' Day.

In an interview with BBC2's Newsnight, Nasiri said Libi " needed the conflict in Iraq because months before I heard him telling us when a question was asked in the mosque after the prayer in the evening, where is the best country to fight the jihad?

Beria and Khrushchev were in a position to add the tasteless warfarin to Stalin's wine the evening before.

" Then he would draw the rest of the day before returning to the field in the evening, a routine he kept up for weeks and months.

On the evening of 4 September, the Israeli athletes enjoyed a night out, watching a performance of Fiddler on the Roof and dining with the play's star, Israeli actor Shmuel Rodensky, before returning to the Olympic Village.

Traditionally, Jews do a formal search for remaining leaven ( Hebrew chametz, as in bedikat chametz ) after nightfall on the evening before Passover.

The meat of this lamb, which is slaughtered and cooked on the evening of Passover, must be completely consumed before the morning.

Finally, late in the evening, the two ' osses do meet, at the maypole, before returning to their respective stables where the crowd sings of the ' Obby ' Oss death, until its resurrection the following May Eve.

This was followed by farming and housekeeping work until after twilight, the evening prayer of Vespers at 6pm, then the night prayer of Compline at 9pm, and off to blessed bed before beginning the cycle again.

On the evening before he departed, he sat with his companions and the tutor of one of his sons quoted a line of poetry: " enjoy the scent of the ox-eye plant of Najd, for after this evening it will come no more.

According to halakha, Shabbat is observed from a few minutes before sunset on Friday evening until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night.

This was the last Super Bowl to kickoff as early as 2: 00 p. m. ( EST ), thereby allowing a finish time before commencement of many of the nation's evening church services.

Al-Nadim then writes about the Persian Hazār Afsān, explaining the frame story it employs: a bloodthirsty king kills off a succession of wives after their wedding night ; finally one concubine had the intelligence to save herself by telling him a story every evening, leaving each tale unfinished until the next night so that the king would delay her execution.

Thus, the execution then was scheduled for later in the evening after the start of the Jewish Sabbath.

During an interrogation at the General Staff HQ in Tokyo on August 1, 1942, Tsuneishi made it clear to Cousens that he had to broadcast for the Japanese or face execution before putting him to work at 6 p. m. that same evening.

On the evening before his execution, he was served a last meal of steak, potatoes, milk and coffee ; he consumed only the milk and coffee.

The Police's song " Bring on the Night ", from their 1979 album Reggatta de Blanc, speculated on Gary Gilmore's possible feelings on the evening before the execution took place.

The shah, however, ordered their execution to be postponed until Saturday, as this happened to be the evening of Friday ( the Islamic Sabbath ), and ordered them back to their duties in the royal pavilion, unfettered and unchained, awaiting their execution the next day.

In the foreword, Lyon describes Billy as a diagnosed psychotic, who one evening, while awaiting execution, " cut his penis off to the root and, placing it in a cup, passed it between the bars to the guard.

In his Stay of Execution, Lincoln gave him a two-week stay of execution to “ the necessary preparation for the awful change which awaits him .” The evening before the execution, Gordon unsuccessfully attempted suicide with strychnine poison, prompting the local authorities to move up the execution to noon from 2: 30 p. m. due to Gordon's health.

In the title rôle the Italian virtuosa Pierina Legnani made her début, and on the evening of the premiere,, her perfection of technique and execution caused a sensation, with many critics and balletomanes hailing her as the supreme ballerina of her generation.

For several days saloons had been required to close their doors at 9 o ' clock in the evening, and on the ninth, the day set for the execution, business of all kinds was suspended.

At 9 o ' clock in the evening, they surrendered, three hours after the start of the combat, while the remaining Jacobites fled into the fog, to escape execution as traitors.

Stuart arrived from Carlisle at General Lee's headquarters shortly after noon on July 2, and his exhausted brigades arrived that evening, too late to affect the planning or execution of the second day's battle.

" During the evening of 26 December a resident of Sudbourne, a village approximately 6 miles ( 10 km ) to the North East of Rendlesham Forest, reported a mysterious shape ( like an upturned mushroom ) in the sky above his garden.

Vanina is fascinated by the mysterious woman, and when, one evening, the woman sees Vanina spying, Vanina falls to her knees and tells the woman that she loves her and is devoted to her.

Johnston's army was finally in position within a mile or two of Grant's force, and undetected, by the evening of April 5, 1862.

Grampa is drugged by his family with " soothin ' syrup " to force him to leave, but dies in the evening of the first day on the road ; Casy attributes his death to a stroke, but also says that Grampa is " jus ' stayin ' with the lan '.

Towards evening the Jameson armed column withdrew and turned south-east attempting to flank the Boer force.

The work force consisted of " Muckers ", who are to clean out debris from blasting ( work always done in the evening ), a mucker boss, a blacksmith, and his assistant.

Just weeks after the Japanese air Attack on Pearl Harbor ( Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 ), the first news reports released to the public pertaining to Claire Chennault's war exploits occurred on December 20, 1941 when senior Chinese officials in Chungking that Saturday evening released his name to United Press International reporters to commemorate the first aerial attack made by the international air force called the American Volunteer Group ( AVG ).

At this point, a corruption scandal involving Vladimiro Montesinos broke out, and exploded into full force on the evening of 14 September 2000, when the cable television station Canal N broadcast footage of Montesinos apparently bribing opposition congressman Alberto Kouri for his defection to Fujimori's Perú 2000 party.

On the evening of 18 / 19 July 1620, a force of Valtellina rebels supported by Austrian and Italian troops marched into Tirano and began killing Protestants.

This force was usually engaged in wearisome tasks entailing hard marching, outpost work during the evening and little prospect of seeing the enemy.

If their ASPD is causing people to lose out on evening activities, including putting their own normal children to bed, then they can force themselves to stay up later than their circadian rhythm wants them to.

Armstrong's letter to Hampton, notifying him of the change in command and also throwing much of the burden of supplying the combined force onto him, arrived the evening before Hampton's army fought the Battle of the Chateauguay.

However, on the evening of 14 May 1940 the Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, gave a radio broadcast announcing the formation of the Local Defence Volunteers and called for volunteers to join the force.

The naval force under Commander Cook departed from Britain during the afternoon, and the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley transport aircraft carrying C company took off from RAF Thruxton in the evening.

Most of the force reached Castleton — a march of — on the evening of 6 July.

That evening two torpedo-boats from Catania and another freighter met them off Messina and the next day their escort force joined the convoy from Taranto after being informed that the Allies had recently left port in Alexandria.

In 1985, Willie Thorne, then on the brink of emerging as a major force to be reckoned with in the game, led Davis 13 – 10 at the start of the evening session, only to miss a simple blue off its spot and lose 16 – 14.

That evening gale force winds set in separating the two ships, which left Rodgers, Porter and the few seamen aboard the Insurgent to guard the prisoners without the support of the crew from the Constellation nearby.

Leslie had arrived at nearby Melrose the evening before, and advanced up the valley of the Tweed, driving in the Royalist outposts at Sunderland ( at the junction of the Ettrick Water with the Tweed, about downstream of Selkirk ) without apparently alarming or alerting the main Royalist force.

When the Turkish forces counter-attacked in the evening, the 6th Battalion force on Pine Ridge was isolated and wiped out to the last man.

On the morning of 8 October the Dutch fleet, approaching from the east, had the previous evening been again scattered by a gale and was still dispersed when around noon it saw Blake coming out in force from the south.

This small force — numbering no more than 500 in total — held out until the evening, when their position became completely untenable and they retreated to the west.

By six o ' clock in the evening the Swedes had lost two flagships along with two fleet admirals, and the entire force now began a disorderly retreat.

On the evening of 18 / 19 July 1620, a force of Valtellina rebels supported by Austrian and Italian troops marched into Tirano and began killing Protestants.

Essex's men knew that evening that they would have to break through by force, there being no suggestion of surrender.

That evening, the full force of Tipu's army fell upon them as they camped at Cheyoor.