Thursday, February 6, 2020

Daily bread 02/06/2020

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Monday, February 3, 2020

Daily bread 02/03/2020

    • it strikes me that
    • a relatively modern phenomenon.
    • was a piecemeal and uneven affair
    • Saint Monday mimicked the religious Saint Day holidays
    • an entirely secular practice
    • were keen to instil a more formal holiday in the working week
    • cock fighting
    • was singled out
    • to draw the worker from the public house
    • a burgeoning leisure industry
    • reduced fares for day-trippers to the countryside
    • switched their star entertainment from a Monday to Saturday
    • to help forge the modern week
    • was beginning to take shape
    • took off in the 1890s
    • neither swift nor uniform
    • an irresistible pull towards
    • laid the groundwork for

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