Word: feast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until their imprisonment in 1870 the Popes of Rome celebrated, with glittering parades, the ancient Feast of Corpus Christi in adoration of the Holy Eucharist...
Steel is proverbially a "feast or famine" industry. Last week National Steel doubled its dividend. U. S. Steel reported a 65,241-ton rise in its backlog of unfilled orders to 1,929,815 tons. Operations for the industry as a whole jumped to 45% of capacity-highest rate in more than two years.* Cheery indeed are steelmen when their backlogs keep swelling while their furnaces grow hotter...
Deeply moved by this love feast after so much bickering in Geneva among other nations, France's eloquent Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour cried...
...Next move was to steal a little Communist thunder and make the old Marxist fête day, May 1, surprisingly quiet the world over, a Nazi Day. First gesture of the loudly proclaimed ''Feast of National Labor" was to release thousands of the less important Socialist and Communist political prisoners from the heavily guarded Nazi detention camps throughout Germany...
...pfennigs each, the proceeds to go to charity so that, in the Chancellor's own words, "No one should go hungry on this day." Restaurants, beer gardens and Nazi headquarters who had promised to distribute free food ran out of supplies early, but it was a wonderful feast while it lasted. Soldiers, police, storm troopers and Stahlhelm members paraded all day long. Proudly officials at the Chancellery displayed a birthday message from the Reichspräsident, signed "In loyal comradeship, believe me, your devoted VON HINDENBURG...