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...third printings. The titles of almost all are characteristically long and explanatory. One volume by George Chapman is entitled "A Justification of a Strange Action of Nero in Burying with Solemne Funerall One of the Cast Hayres of His Mistress Poppaea; Also a Just Reproof of a Romane Smell-Feast, Being the Fifth Satyre of Juvenall" Nicholas Breton is represented by one of his works published in 1612 which he titles "Pasquils Nightcap; or Antidote for the Head Ache...
...intent on waging class war over cups, and saucers, the Evening Standard made reply to its contemporary. It uncarthed a dinner given two weeks ago by the Soviet delegation in London: and labelled it a feast of Lucullus. With watering mouth and rising temperature, the author of the reply listed the vintages arrayed before the Russians: Sauterne, claret, champagne port, brandy, and vodka. It drew the moral that a society tea is but a quick lunch beside a good, luscious, Bolsheviki spread...
...Educational Review" by C. H. Ho, a Chinese student at Teacher's College, Columbia. The attraction of the article lies in the data amassed. The instances cited show the colleges laboring hard with the problem of tucking in the bib and enticing the child to sit down to the feast...
This letter is part of His Holiness's program of establishing the "Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ." Further in line with this program he announced also in his letter a new Catholic feast, the Feast of the Kingdom of Christ to be celebrated the last Sunday in October, except this year when he himself was scheduled to celebrate it by pontifical high mass in the basilica of St. Peter's on New Year's eve, that is, on Dec. 31, St. Sylvester's. Prelates everywhere were scheduled similarly to celebrate the masses...
...Charges d'Affaires of Salvador, Persia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Roumania; the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies-all sat down to a grand international feast from the Dolly Madison service in the state dining room of the White House. Besides there were poinsettias, stevia, maidenhair ferns and French gilt candles. The builders of the tower of Babel would have been shocked if the assemblage had begun to talk in its native languages. Afterwards there was music...