Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...followed several of them as they fled along a street. In a courtyard they were dividing their booty. One had bread, one a herring, one a packet of cigarets, one chocolate, one nothing. But all was put in the centre and divided equally. Then they began eating hungrily...
...spectacle of too many gilded "amateurs" has spoiled the possibility of any such request being granted. People suspect a fake in the picture of the amateur athlete, burning with desire to do his duty by the public, yet faced by the necessities of bread and butter. Presumably, the amateur turns his back on Mammon and unselfishly offers his talents and his time on the altar of public service. Growing boys are crying out for an athletic example, old men's eyes will flash with ancient fire at the spectacle of his skill and might, young girls will realize that none...
...service that followed differed in no particular from a Roman High-Mass except that it was sung in English. At the moment when the bread and wine were consecrated, a gong rang and the kneeling congregation intoned "Blessed, praised and adored forevermore be Jesus Christ on his throne of glory." Every session of the congress began with an "Ave Maria." The favorite hymn was one ending with the refrain, "Hail, Mary, full of grace." Rosaries, crucifixes and sacred images were offered for sale to the members. During the three days of sessions a number of eminent churchmen spoke, among them...
...that "the Majlis is deliberating as to what shall be the permanent form of Persia's Government," and is leaning toward a republic with Reza Khan as President. The former version is supported by picturesque "details" to the effect that "the new Shah has ordered the price of bread reduced throughout the kingdom . . . proclaimed three holidays of rejoicing . . . [and] pensioned the former Shah and Royal Family...
...sanitary grounds, have been made in five dioceses, and in the diocese of West Virginia it has been forbidden by law and the Bishop threatened with arrest if it continued.' The bishops declined to drop the practice, although several bishops have permitted their clergymen to dip the bread in the chalice of wine and give it to communicants to avoid the cup's passing from...