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That whimsical Hoosier, the late Thomas R. Marshall, inaugurated the annual Vice Presidential feast in honor of the Senate page boys, Calvin Coolidge continued it, added an after-dinner speech. Last week, Charles G. Dawes invited the 50 other employes of the Senate, addition to the 20 pages; he had fun; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Three sizzling reindeer steaks were set last week before three very lean and perhaps hungry royal uncles: the kings of Sweden, Denmark, Norway. Their royal niece, Princess Astrid of Sweden had baked to crown the feast, a birthday cake for her fiance, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, who had come to Stockholm earlier in the week with his parents King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians. The host and hostess of this royal birthday party intime, which preceded the wedding of Astrid and Leopold last week, were the bride's parents: Prince Carl, Duke of Vasterg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Half-Marriage | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

Sunday, Oct. 31, marked a new date of world significance in the Roman Catholic calendar, for which His Holiness had made elaborate preparations. Last year His Holiness issued a most significant encyclical letter, establishing a new institution: The Feast of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as King -to occur every year and in all the world on the last Sunday of October. Its purpose is to recapitulate the claim of Our Lord to reign over the minds, wills, hearts of men, claims too often neglected or forgotten, a sin which His Holiness states is responsible for "the deluge of evils" which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Busy Pontiff | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Finally Princess Ileana attended with her mother a banquet which began at noon and lasted until high tea time. The host who tendered this Lucullan feast was His Highness, Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, famed pearl fancier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Regular Royal Queen | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Sacramento. Herds of pedigree cattle browsed its meadows. Orchards bowed with tons of fruit. Gardens of European truck spread for acres, efficiently irrigated. The cavalcade passed through many a village of Sutter's clean Kanaks slaves. Flowers smothered the walls of the master's hacienda where a feast waited-salmon trout, venison, bear's paws, crocodile pears-served on Spanish plate by girls from the Sandwich Isles while a Hawaiian orchestra played the "Marseillaise," the "Berne March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Golden Ghost | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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