Word: feasting
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...might follow from this that he is repellent. Quite the contrary. Terence Stamp plays him with enormously ingratiating charm, zest and skill. More important, Playwright Naughton has netted a real character, and reality exonerates itself in the theater, turning moralizing attitudes into carping ghosts at a feast...
...companies who discreetly proscribe bottled cheer but want to reach the recipient through taste buds, there are Southern hams, Texas pecans, or fruits packed by more than a dozen Florida and California growers. Santa Clara's Day & Young, Inc. offers a "Royal Feast" that costs $21.95 and includes two smoked pheasants, two cheeses and four jars of marinated artichoke hearts. Busiest fruit packer of all is 64-year-old "Harry & David" of Medford, Ore., whose business annually exceeds $10 million and whose corporate orders often total $25,000 at a clip...
...Moveable Feast, Hemingway...
Prosperity has knocked the moral stuffing out of Thanksgiving. The third Thursday of November once heard the patriotic flapping of the bald eagle; today it is a feast day, a holiday of turkeys...
...Virginia colonists barely survived their first years in the New World. Like the Pilgrims, they persevered. Against Miles Standish's bungled courtship of Priscilla Alden, the Jamestown legend can put the capture of John Smith by Powhatan and his rescue by Pocahontas. The counterpart of the Pilgrim's harvest feast in Virginia was the arrival of a relief expedition on June...