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...Athens, Easter Sunday's Feast of the Resurrection was far from festive. Martial law had been proclaimed, and while church bells pealed Athenians bandied the latest rumor: next on the party list was Vice Premier Constantin Tsaldaris...
...borrowed from the book of Henri Christophe, the slaveborn general who helped free Haiti from the French, in 1811 proclaimed himself King Henry I. A Christophe decree, later made law, ordered that people coming to town on feast days should be neatly dressed. The democratic Estime revived it as one means of making Haiti as prosperous as it had been under the high-handed Christophe...
Prince & Pauper. The feast-&-famine industries were really feasting in these days of shortages. In the packing industry, Wilson & Co. stock sold at 16¾, only 2½ times 1947's per-share earnings. Sugar stocks, depressed by the fear of a big Cuban crop, were about as low. Others...
...candy, piles of vegetables and a big jar of olives. Because Mme. Miville-Dechêne had done her shopping in snow-mantled Quebec City on Saturday, she had five days to get ready for la fête de Noël-first the big réveillon feast that would follow midnight Mass, and then le diner de Noë at 1 o'clock Christmas afternoon...
...blinds are pulled down. They nap until 4. A couple of hours before the race, they are taken from their owners and kept under inspection by the Florida Racing Commission. At midnight, after the races, Kirkpatrick's greyhounds get their one meal of the day-a feast of hamburger, vegetables, bran and dog biscuit. Once in a while they get canned peaches...