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...Pallia are woven annually from the fleece of two white lambs, blessed in Rome on the feast of St. Agnes (near-Latin for lamb), and sheared at Easter. An Archbishop must petition the Pope for his pallium, is awarded it at a consistory...
...denies his reputation for being able to drink like a Cossack, says he has been drunk only three times (once he drew a blank, once he dimly remembers he downed two quarts of whiskey on a train in Poland, once he got drunk to help survive a Chinese feast of 100 courses), and insists that he drinks only "to celebrate a past event, to indulge the feeling of work well done, or to warm up for the future...
...Vice Governor retired for consultation. Next day a gilded barge pulled out, with the Governor himself aboard. Upshot was that President Fillmore's letter was delivered, Perry sailed away, went back after six months, and negotiated the first U. S.-Japanese trade treaty. Negotiations culminated in a grand feast and bottle party on Mississippi's quarterdeck. Just before he passed out, the Japanese High Commissioner flung his arms around a captain's neck and declared through happy tears: "Nippon and America, all same heart." For the next 77 years-until 1931-the U. S.-Japanese heart beat...
Maybe the brand of Yorkshire pudding you get in New York is indigestible, but the kind of Yorkshire pudding such as my wife makes is a feast for the gods. After living in China and Alaska my stomach is not too strong, but I could eat my wife's Yorkshire pudding every day in the year and never suffer from indigestion...
When Depression sucked the Insull empire under, American Gas, doing business next door (in Indiana), was comfortably earning nearly twice as much as its preferred dividends, was investing spare cash in bankers' acceptances. Remarkable is this liquidity and solvency for a system dependent in good part on such feast-&-famine businesses as Timken Roller Bearing (at Canton, Ohio), American Rolling Mill (at Ashland, Ky.), International Nickel (at Huntington, W. Va.), then very much depressed...