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Obedient to etiquette, the Emperor, after bidding his foreign guests goodby. sat down with 5,000 officers and soldiers of all ranks to a characteristic Ethiopian feast of whole sheep and oxen, served raw and warm from the kill, and washed down with heroic drafts of tej or mead. Etiquette further decrees that such a royal feast shall close with Homeric boasting...
...President Grant alone used a fork, the others pitching into the food with fingers. At Hilo President Grant planted a banyan tree on a drive where banyans have been planted by Franklin Roosevelt, Vicki Baum, Cecil B. De Mille, Babe Ruth. Sun Fo. In Honolulu they attended a Samoan feast, a Chinese dinner. Then they set up the stake, which embraces 5,000 Mormons on the island of Oahu. Stake president: Ralph E. Woolley, Honolulu contractor. President Grant dedicated the site for a $200,000 stake tabernacle, departed in another burst of alohas...
Because More was a lawyer, his canonization took place in St. Peter's last Sunday on the feast of the patron of lawyers, St. Ives.* By happy coincidence it was also the feast of St. Dunstan, chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and politician (died 988). In the U. S., Catholics celebrated the occasion with special masses and meetings, including one in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral attended by many a judge and lawyer. In New Orleans, nine descendants of Sir Thomas More listened to the canonization by radio, envious of a tenth, Bernard Gonzales Carbajal, merchant...
Thereupon, the minister who had cried "pussyfooting" apologized. Handshakes all around. "It was," said Moderator Dr. Daniel Russell, "a love feast...
Last Sunday, besides being the Catholic feast of St. Nereus & Companions, was Mother's Day. In Pittsburgh was dedicated a $4,000,000 church. East Liberty Presbyterian, given by the late Richard Beatty Mellon and his wife Jennie King Mellon in memory of their mothers. Four years abuilding by famed Medievalist Architect Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic church will seat 1.700, will automatically become the cathedral of Presbyterianism in an already strongly Presbyterian city...