Word: feastings
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...potbellied chief of three African villages, and he was thoroughly disgusted with Gadein. Smaller boys outran him and outfought him. The village girls and, indeed, the whole village, laughed at him. "Here comes the lunatic!" the young men would roar. On the night of the great feast, Abu Zed publicly labeled his son: "You pig, you frog, you hyena, you almost-Egyptian...
...trek from Cairo to his native village in Kenya. In retrospect, army life becomes just a great laugh. In the native villages, he makes a hit by simply imitating the gaits of his British officers. And, home at last, his army pay buys him a bride and a great feast. For once even his father approves of him, and allows Gadein to sit on his right. And when, at the end of the feast, Gadein slips off into the bushes with his girl, the village beams...
...Explorers Club in Manhattan invited Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norlcey, co-conqueror of Mount Everest (TIME, July 9), to come from Nepal to feast on American delicacies at its 50th-anniversary banquet, sent him a round-trip air ticket and asked a club member, Greece's Prince Peter, who lives in a Tibetan border town, to help arrange Tenzing's trip. But both Peter and U.S. Ambassador to India George V. Allen got a cold turndown from West Bengal officials, who suddenly discovered that Tenzing could not be spared, even for a week. He was needed, said they...
...this year, almost every orange and grapefruit will be sold at good prices−or at least safely stored in cans for future sale. For this happy prospect, citrus men can thank the $132 million frozen-concentrate industry, which in a few short years has leveled out the feast & famine industry by dotting the green landscape with 22 vast brick and aluminum cold-storage warehouses. Having poured millions into the liquid-concentrate revolution, the citrus industry may be on the threshold of another upheaval: crystal concentrates, easy to ship and inexpensive to store, that can be turned into fruit juice...
...from spoiling the entire film, the mediocre effects offer a forceful contrast to the great moments in this "Hunchback." Laughton is magnificent at the Feast of Fools and in the pathetic tower sequence with Esmeralda. The crowd scenes are uniformly impressive, and the film in all is more than entertaining...