Word: feastings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heard of the popish goings-on at St. Andrew's and called Anglican Harris on the carpet. Yes, said the priest, he celebrated the Roman Mass instead of Anglican Communion (and included a prayer for the Pope as "Head of the Church"). Yes, he had celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary-not recognized by the Church of England. In fact, said Harris, he deplored the Reformation and felt no loyalty to the post-Reformation church. Then he resigned...
...color-blind-to black, red and white. But two fierce military actions teach him differently. A forced march through the badlands ends in heroics and madness, stewed rattlesnake and deep swallows of horses' blood. Finally, after many a deadly duel in the sun. comes a love feast among the minorities, which lifts this dryly authentic western onto a surprisingly high moral plain. English-born, Saskatchewan-raised Author Prebble richly deserves his new-won certificate as member of the Western Writers of America; his Indians have a minimum of wood about them and his soldiers a minimum...
...million the first year, $7 billion in all. Only the Communists denounced the plan as too moderate and refused to sign the commission's report. The other parties agreed with Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias Blanco, who declared that passage of the bill "will be for me a feast day of great jubilation...
While the woman got the pot boiling, the men set to work dismembering the body. In the feast that followed, the four managed to devour all of the deceased save the head and one leg, which they put aside for the next meal. It proved a mistake. A young boy found the head, ran horrified to tell his parents, and the police were called. Uganda, whites and blacks alike, was shocked: the ceremonial eating of a bit of human flesh is still not uncommon in Uganda, but wholesale cannibalism as such is unheard...
...Leningrad, the nine Governors-sat down to a caviar-to-strawberries feast hosted by the city's top Red, drank toasts to peace, friendship, good relations, mutual understanding, culture, trade, U.S. youth, Soviet youth, U.S. women and Soviet women, broke out in I've Been Workin' on the Railroad and Auld Lang Syne. And in Moscow, Dennis Michael O'Connor, 26, U.S. exchange student at Moscow University, and Mary Louise McMahon, 22, lately arrived from Tenafly, N.J., got married in the city's only Roman Catholic Church. Why get married in the U.S.S.R.? Explained...