Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trend in Reunion behavior has been developing for some time. Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22 spotted it back in the thirties, and commented: "It is no longer necessary to break three hundred glasses and fifteen windowpanes in order to prove that you've been college graduates for six years. Amen! Amen!, sigh the hotel proprietors on the Cape...
...dinner, grace is said by either Donald or Joe, in conversational man-to-man tones: "Father, we thank Thee for this day and particularly for this food. Go with us through the further part of this night. Amen." The meal is hearty. A typical menu: fried chicken, pole beans with lots of shelled ones mixed among the snaps, whippoorwills (brown peas), okra (fixed in a "made-up" dish with corn-bread crumbs and meats, so as to remove the slickness), corn, sweet potatoes, candied pears, eggbread sticks, biscuits, cake and ice cream. Most of the food is produced...
...House. Meeting in Chicago, the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church got off a wire: "No man connected with the liquor industry should be placed in such a position ... We do not feel that organized liquor traffic should have a place of honor and power in your Administration." Amen, cried the W.C.T.U., the National Temperance League and the National Temperance and Prohibition Council...
...dazzling piece of orchestration, the single, defenseless human voice is set off against the relentless clash of cymbals; and in the sweet, concluding Agnus Dei, there are chilling traces of jagged pagan rhythms (later used by Stravinsky). Conductor Munch tenderly and forcefully drove toward the end, spinning out the Amen with a loving final touch. A cathedral hush hung beneath the bare steel rafters; then the crowd leaped up and cheered...
...pastoral letter last week he said: "The hour has arrived to intensify the practice of the social doctrine of the church. If Guatemala fails to follow the Christian path of justice and love ... do not be surprised if bloody Communism again returns to this country." As a sort of amen to that, nine nations quickly recognized the new regime, and Secretary of State Dulles hinted that the U.S. would soon follow suit...