Word: feastings
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...huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with light. President Darwin Pearl Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Co. made the opening address, which was broadcast to 2,300,000 policy holders whose insurance totals $6,800,000,000. Said he: "Beauty is the natural handmaiden of power and power is the dominant note in modern American...
More select was another political feast, given in Madrid last week by Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond. Present were Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera...
...world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget the next rent bill even in the midst of the feast, and the faintest savor of the mundane changes the Olympian ambrosia to a mess of porridge that is only a little more appetising than the every-day fare...
...Down, Moses. Not only David's victory over Goliath but other marvelous episodes from Old Testament narrative-Jonah and his voyage in the whale, Methuselah and his ripe old age, Belshazzar and his feast-were ranked by Dr. Gore and his more than 50 collaborators as no more than Hebrew Nights' Entertainments. .They were explained as "products of the Semitic habit of exaggeration...
Soon Conquering Lion Tafari, who claims to be a descendant of Biblical King Solomon, was crowned, and a seven-day feast began. It was made all the merrier by the arrival of a cablegram from London...