Word: feasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament, in the English Civil War. When he was a prisoner aboard a Spanish man o' war, one of his captors "looks down the scuttle where we were and called in Spanish to us 'There is good news: Cromwell is dead. There is a great feast in hell.' This . . . was good news to the Spaniards, for he made them cheap." On another voyage, from the Barbary Coast, his ship escaped the Greeks ("a murdering sort of people") only to fall into the hands of the Turks, who made slaves of Coxere and his mates-"in chains...
Presiding and performing at this one-course feast is 50-year-old Pianist Alexander Brailowsky, a small, lean Russian. Like another great Chopinist, Ignace Paderewski, Brailowsky studied in Vienna under Leschetizky, but it was not until he was already a box-office favorite in Paris that he got the idea of giving all of the master's works...
...charter of the anti-Negro, anti-Semitic Columbians, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 11), demagogic President Emory Burke disdainfully tore the charter to shreds, mailed the pieces to Assistant Attorney General Daniel Duke. The loss of a charter would not stop them. Last week khaki-shirted Columbians assembled for another hate feast...
Alternately harmonizing together and battling for audience approval, the Eli and Crimson Glee Clubs met last night in their annual song feast and brought down the house more than once with rendition of college songs and other light works in Sanders Theater...
...means of spotters directing the defense from second story stations throughout the University Hall area, and the unbending line of the reserves under the command of Sergeant John Twomy, the Yale charge was quickly converted into "a pleasant song feast" according to Randall's laconic summation...