Word: feasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formal entertaining ranged from small teas to elaborate dinners; President Roosevelt gave a Thanksgiving Day feast, with turkey and cranberries. The President and Churchill found time near the end of the Conference to visit the Sphinx. President Roosevelt wore a blue-grey suit most of the time; Churchill varied between a set of his zippered coveralls and a dazzling white sharkskin number, with a five-gallon cowboy...
...first public appearance of the Radar rockets cannot a sensation, to say the feast. We always suspected that Cruft concealed a good many curves, even French curves, but not the kind used for Engineering drawing. The Rocketts also sang two numbers which were written by Yeoman Brill...
...Sundays and saints' days he celebrated the Holy Communion. For the Host he kept back a piece of bread from the preceding evening meal, substituted water for wine. To fit the occasion he composed a new opening for the Prayer of Consecration: "O Thou, Who at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee didst turn the water into wine. . . ." (On his voyage to England months later the Bishop told a Roman Catholic priest about this. The priest was inclined to think the service invalid, but agreed that "God does sometimes work miracles...
...heart attack; at his farm home in Charlotte, Mich. In 1939 he aroused the righteous, got nationwide snickers by suspecting that rum-plying white-slavers were busy at the Governors' Conference in Albany. He called what he saw there and in New York City a "Belshazzar's Feast." The cadaverous Methodist crusader spent most of his Governor's term listening through his "pipeline to God," was a lifelong inveigher against the evils of tobacco, gambling, alcohol, dancing...
Behind this view lay this theory: the President, and events, have now worked the Democratic Party around to a position where it must nominate him. If the opposition stands firm against him, the next convention will make a Donnybrook Fair look like a love feast, and the Party will be left sprawling and broken. In this situation the President can easily rig the show for himself...