Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made upon music heard in Java. Conductor Stokowski said that he had been entertained by the good Sultan of Djokjakarta in his 15-acre palace at the wedding ceremonies of certain of the children of several of the Sultan's 3,000 wives. At this wedding feast he had heard Javanese "gamalongs" or orchestras which he described...
...Other pious beliefs: no house in which blessed palms are kept will be struck by lightning; holy water will disperse devils; those whose throats are blessed on the Feast of St. Blase will be immune to throat diseases. Pious beliefs are not to be confused with Articles of Faith...
...established in St. Dominic's name, lead solitary, meditative lives, hearing not even overtones of the thronging metropolis. Last week, at Menlo Park, this renunciation of the world began with the dedication of the chapel by San Francisco's famed Archbishop Hanna. With special mass and a Feast of the Dedication the nuns entered into their new home. Plain chant and the mellow chiming of bells echoed from the vaults. The ceremonies over, the portals of the cloister were sealed. Henceforth the nuns' only communication with friends or relatives is by mail or through the solidly grated...
...water lilies. To the skeptical she offers a tour of inspection at the Long Island factory. Here she would exhibit row on row of half-opened water lilies, kept fresh until the exact moment when their essence may be impounded into creams, powders, lipsticks. Less aesthetic visitors could feast their eyes on tubs of cucumbers, great bunches of parsley leaves. Madame Rubinstein is justly proud of her products, noted for their active qualities, making the skin tingle. At her shop, min-istrants to beauty smile when a newcomer tries an application. "Timid women," they 'remark, "are-terrified...
Bowers. Comfortably cool in this igloo in the desert, Democrats confidently expected a feast of oratory. Traditionally, the party's sessions have been marked by eloquent appeals to the memory of Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. This year the keynote speech of Claude Gernade Bowers, historian and editorial writer for the New York Evening World, was awaited with more than usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation...