Word: feasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applied by most League States. To the chagrin of loyal Leaguophiles, famed "Proposal No. 5," the only active Proposal, under which League States would assist each other to compensate for losses incurred through application of sanctions, had not been ratified last week by Britain. In a love feast of honeyed speeches the 52 nations which voted last week for Nov. 18, omitted without exception to denounce Italy, mostly spoke of her as their "old friend" and pledged "continued loyalty" to the League Covenant. They nodded sagely when Premier Laval recalled, as meaningly as possible last week, that only last January...
...awakening, the feast that follows are literary masterpiece that have made this poem of Keats the escape is planned...
...With earnestness we have desired to share with you in the spiritual sweetness of this richest feast and join our prayers and intercessions with yours to obtain an ever renewed and ever greater increase of faith and Catholic life ... to deprecate the unspeakable material and moral havoc of wars and their dire aftermath of tears and sorrow; to implore that peace that is so much desired by all. peace to those that are near and to those that are far, and to supplicate at least a less intolerable burden of life for a world worn to exhaustion by the ravages...
...least to constitutional power. I find in this [Utility] Act not so much of a gesture." Earlier in the week SEC's new Chairman James McCauley ("Chink") Landis had invited representatives from all the major holding companies to Washington for what turned into almost a love feast...
Eager to make his savage people seem as civilized as possible, Ethiopia's shrewd, sharp-nosed Emperor Haile Selassie has done his best to discourage the traditional royal Guebbeur or Raw Meat Feast since this gory spectacle revolted European diplomats who attended His Majesty's Coronation (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). Last week, however, the menace of Fascist Italy seemed so imminent that the Emperor dared not deprive his crack Imperial Guard of the raw meat for which these tribesmen have been slavering. Though they have put off their flowing robes, donned khaki and drilled under Belgian instructors, the Imperial Guardsmen...