Word: christenings
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...antebellum South where slaves sing in King Cotton's fields, and dance joyfully to the amusement of the kindly massas from the Big House. The South will not endure the North's dictation, and so her sons ride off from Wingate Halls garlanded with tears and cheers, to christen the Stars and Bars in Yankee blood at Bull Run. Though the war ends with Lee's majestic surrender to sloppy old Grant, the wounded sons return home to begin a spirited restitching of their tattered Dixie-land until Lincoln--brave, tall, sad, lonely Lincoln--is assassinated in a historical facsimile...
...harmless to skin and other tissue). Father Lambert scraped together sufficient funds to get to London and there "invested his last dollar in an elegant carriage with a liveried coachman." Helped by this haughty equipage, he coaxed from Lord Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, the right to christen the new formula with the great man's name...
...Irish Republican Army who are busy populating their underpopulated principality with a brood of half-caste children, some named sentimentally for great figures of the Irish Troubles. Overproof Queensland rum is their drink; mutton is their food; and once a year a priest arrives on the scene to christen the new children, and to tell the elders that they are living in mortal sin. Mrs. Regan has been "married" to the two brothers in succession...
...shipowner. The legend of Niarchos, fondly referred to in the world's press as the "Golden Greek," is a blurred montage of shipboard launching parties, at which he bestows diamond bracelets and gold Faberge cigarette boxes on the beautiful and highborn women (e.g., the Duchess of Kent) who christen his ships, repartee in the royal enclosure at Ascot, champagne flowing like home brut in the nightclubs of London and Paris. Unlike most legends, it is woven from whole fact...
...they bring about Western complacency and diminished preparedness, will only lead to renewed Soviet aggression. The Eisenhower Administration should recognize the false optimism that has developed in the country recently and should follow up the present Foreign Ministers conference by inaugurating--and perhaps by having its slogan-makers appropriately christen--a new Geneva spirit. This new attitude must preclude such statements as that of Secretary Dulles last Wednesday, when he, alone among the four foreign ministers, espied "considerable similarity of thinking" between the incompatible positions of East and West on the question of European security...