Word: feast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplied the cordial for last week's love feast. Said he: "What we need is not to decrease but to enhance the monopoly called a patent. Genuine protection in that form would be the last surviving bulwark standing between the inventor and the onslaught of mighty and ruthless corporations...
Although tending to be over-melodramatic in presentation, "Drums," an English film now at the University, nevertheless unfolds an engrossing tale of mutiny and conspiracy among the natives of northwest India. Filmed entirely in technicolor, the picture contains splendid interior shots of a traditional Mohammedan feast, as well as magnificent panoramic views of rugged mountain gorges. One might well protest, however, against the Buckingham Palace splendor of the supposedly primitive British army outposts, strangely out of harmony with the rude country around the Khyber Pass...
Thus St. Luke and St. Matthew reported the most important event of their time-to Christians, the most important event in the world since its creation. This week Christendom marks the anniversary of Christ's Nativity. Sober Christians, celebrating the feast in a world of fears, troubles and confusions, could well wonder whether, in the 1,943 years* since their Saviour's birth, Christendom had ever been so sorely beset...
...most calculations, Christ was born in 5 B. C. There is no evidence that the date was December 25. As Christmas evolved in early Christian times, it was strongly influenced by the more ancient Roman winter feast of Saturnalia...
...that last day of the fast (Thanksgiving Eve in the U. S.) most of the soldiers were licking their chops in anticipation of the gorging they would do for the feast of Bairam during the next three days. Among their number, however, was one young sepoy who, half-crazed through abstention, ran amuck during the night. He forced his way into the tent of the battalion's major, with his rifle shot the major dead in his sleep. Aroused, five other officers-three British and two Indian-rushed to the scene. Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang,-the sepoy killed...