Word: ashes
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Pray don't disturb my ash...
Favors, probably in the form of ash trays, will be given out with cigarettes and pipe tobacco and while ginger ale, sandwiches and doughnuts are being served a picture of the class will be taken...
...such revivals do evangelical Christian churches begin the six-week pre-Easter tide of exhortation to creed and dogma that will reach its flood on April 17 this year.* Roman Catholics and the more ritualistic Protestant denominations (Episcopal, Lutheran, Reformed), however, not content with such informality, celebrate Ash Wednesday as their beginning, the Roman Catholics having their foreheads marked crosswise with the ashes of palms used on Palm Sunday of the previous year. Then for 40 days of Lent-a Teutonic word originally meaning spring-they turn their thoughts with especial pains towards their religion...
...chance for a new game was afforded by the university when it supplied the Common room with four shiny brass ash trays, stamped H. U. Immediately the sportiest of the young athletes invented a fast game of table shuffle board. Played by teams of two, in which two men of opposing sides stand at each end off a long table, the objective is to have your two ash trays nearest the other end of the table. If one contestant can get both nearer than his opponent does, his side scores two points, if only one is ahead a single marker...
Gold looks have been unable to stem the tide of interest. One evening the four ash trays disappeared and there was great consternation among the players. Within a short time four more appeared; it is unknown whether they are the same or not, but they are ash trays and the game continues...