Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author' Timmermans just shouts aloud, in an excess of good spirits, that life at Mother Nature's breast is a glutton's feast for body, mind and soul. It is grand philosophy, stirring tonic for city-pale people. Author Timmermans is Belgian, his gusto unfeigned. The illustrator, Anton Pieck, contributes fetching garnitures, one per page...
Corruption. "In 1913, the lobby was scourged from Washington; in 1921, like a flock of unclean birds hastening to the feast, it gathered from the four winds and descended upon the city. The Little Green House in K Street was set up for sinister purposes but partly disclosed. Its occupants and their friends soon proved that they lacked neither zeal nor appetite...
...will follow his great successes Liliom, Fashions for Men and The Swan with The Red Mill, in which Belasco will star Lenore Ulric. The Theatre Guild will blend the brilliant abilities of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine into a production of The Guardsman. Gilbert Miller has acquired The Roman Feast and there is talk of reviving The Phantom Rival. Explorers abroad report that Molnar's latest is The Glass Shoe, to be produced presently in Budapest...
...Author. Mrs. George Crichton Miln (Louise Jordan Miln) has been a life-long admirer of China. Writing about it is her favorite amusement. Among her books are Mr. Wu, The Feast of the Lanterns, The Green Goddess...
...Roman Bishops of England petitioned the Pope to "introduce the cause" of 315 persons who had been executed for heresy in the reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth, James I (1509-1625). The Pope granted the honor of beatification (Sainthood) to 54 of them and as signed their general feast...