Word: eastering
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...quite impossible for me to know what anyone is saying." To Winston Churchill he said: "We are getting very excited . . . Perhaps that is exactly what the Right Honorable gentleman likes to see." Brown weathered the rowdy week, then collapsed from exhaustion, sent word he would be absent until after Easter. Parliament's catering staff, messengers and policemen, also worn to a frazzle, sent a deputation to Chuter Ede, leader of the House. They complained that they got only 15 hours sleep the whole week, asked for relief...
Copyright Infringed? Attlee, strained by weeks of stormy parliamentary sessions, is entering a hospital over the Easter recess for a checkup on his 1948 duodenal ulcer, which lately has given signs of returning...
...played, liquored, and adjourned," read the old minutes of the College's first musical group, the Pierian Sodality of 1808. But its modern foster child, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, could hardly duplicate such wantonness for tomorrow night's Easter concert which starts at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The second concert of the 1950-51 season selt, working with the new conductor, Russell Stanger...
Until that time, the University's orchestral group might have been deemed unfit to play on Easter Sunday. In the ante-1900 era it was a renowned drinking club, and its members often spent their time serenading under the windows of Boston's debutantes...
...life outside the stereotypes (Chicago gangsters, Hollywood divorces, Senator Claghorns) purveyed by most of Britain's popular press. Cooke used the occasion of the recent atomic bomb tests to discuss mining and farming in Nevada, which most Britons knew only for Reno and gambling. For an Easter story this year, Cooke is assuming that England knows about Manhattan's Fifth Avenue parade, plans to tell about the Easter rituals of the Ute and Yaqui Indians...