Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Costa Rica's Gonzales. G. Gonzalez, son of Costa Rica's President Cleto Gonzalez, pleaded, argued, cajoled with Baxter Douglas Boozer and Donald Duke, two U.S. flyers, fellow passengers on the Pan-American Mail liner Colombia, bound for the Canal Zone. At the Canal Zone the flyers intend...
The origin of the Christmas tree is lost in antiquity. As a Christmas feature, however, it was mentioned first in a manuscript of the time of Luther, and was adopted first by the Germans. A German gentlewoman was visiting in England over Christmastide early in the last century, and part...
Introibo. In his own way, Cardinal O'Connell, senior U.S. dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church† planned his Christmas, back home in Boston. Christmas eve he will say farewell to his inseparable companion, the black French poodle Moro, to pay a visit to orphan asylums. Christmas day he...
Indeed, an impartial observer, mindful of the origin of many a Christmas custom, might think of this holiday as one that embraces all creeds, all times, in a common human experience. It occurs at the time of the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its farthest point south, and the...
Like tree and carol, from land to land Christmas custom and spirit have been carried through the centuries, whether by warriors, travellers, missionaries. Thus on this one greatest feast-day of the year the World is kin.