Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post office of the District of Columbia must have been a bit rushed on the morning of Jan. 1, because on New Year's eve someone went to numerous postboxes and dumped in 600,000 letters...
...white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that one of Mr. Hassam's canvasses should depict no less a scene than Adam and Eve Walking out in Montauk in the Early Spring. Hand in hand they go, down a long forest corridor, shades of red and russet deepening round them (red for Adam,, whose name means "Red Earth"), naked little figures wandering among blossoms and friendly beasts in Montauk...
Christmas time is one of good will and of generosity; one of rejoicing, of reunion. Happily, many of us, more than usual on account of the vacation, have gone home for the holiday. Those who live too far were invited in friendly families, parties were given them; on Christmas eve, about three hundred were at President Lowell's party, on Christmas evening, the Phillips Brooks House gave an entertainment, some kind people made a special point to invite the foreign students, churches and societies had Christmas parties for all young and old. In short there has been a chance...
Among the inscriptions on the presents was "Anno jubilaes MCMXXV", which is to say that 1925 is a Holy Year of Jubilee. On Christmas Eve, bearing his hammer and trowel according to the custom, Pope Pius will take his way to the Holy Door of St. Peter's. There he will strike upon the door with the hammer, crying out: "Open unto me the Gates of Justice." At the third stroke, masonry which has walled up the door since the last holy year (1825) will be made to crumble, the holy portal will gape. Assisted by Jubilee penitents, the Pope...
...three other basilicas in Rome? St. John Lateran, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Mary Major?specially deputed cardinals will "batter down" other holy portals. The symbolism of the rite is variously interpreted?by some as representing the return of Adam and Eve (i.e., humanity) to Paradise through the intercession of Christ; by others, as having sprung from the fact that the medieval church was sanctuary for fugitives...