Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With battered superstructures, the battleship Washington, carrying 1,606 troops, and the carrier Enterprise (5,057 troops) limped into New York on Christmas Eve-as the Navy had promised. Said the Washington's Captain Francis X. McInerney: "The worst storms I have ever experienced in 26 years at sea . . . far worse than the typhoons in the Pacific last year...
...York's plump, tireless, globetrotting, auctorial* Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman learned of his elevation on the eve of going home to his father's for Christmas in Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother." The onetime grocer's boy and champion horseshoe pitcher, now the able and beloved shepherd of Catholicism's richest archdiocese, is one of Pius XII's closest friends, served under him in Rome...
...would be the biggest, noisiest New Year's Eve in a long, long time. Manhattan's bars would stay open until dawn, U.S. roadhouses would be neon-lighted after dark years, and the stiff white shirt front would be back once more, a gleaming and irresistible target for females with an urge to write with lipstick. Between the last tick of 1945 and the first tock of 1946, U.S. citizens would consume enough alcohol to float a rinkful of ice, and the thin, happy bleat of paper horns would echo from time zone to time zone in pleased...
Anti-Climax. Yet it was an odd time for a celebration. New Year's Eve would inevitably come as an anticlimax to the wild triumph and relief of V-J day; the new era of peace would hardly have begun...
...medieval church was strong on mummery. A common ecclesiastical practice was to elect a "boy bishop" (Episcopus Puerorum) to hold office from the Eve of St. Nicholas, Dec. 5, to Holy Innocents' Day, Dec. 28. Salisbury Cathedral contains an elaborate monument to such a boy bishop who died "in office" and was buried with full episcopal honors...