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...power; tangled recollections of a score of interesting things-the robots-James Barton's dancing-the lace-ballet in the Follies-the Texas Nightingale-the war scene in The Insect Comedy - Stanislavsky - the unfortunate " 49ers "-Cyril Maude -et cetera. At all events it was a rich and entertaining feast...
Last Sunday and Monday the Jews held Passover preaching services in their synagogues (orthodox) or temples (reformed). After the services family groups celebrated the Passover feast ("seyder"), each in its own home. After an ordinary supper, a ritual is carried out during which four small cups of sacramental wine are drunk by each member of the family. A dish in the center of the table contains a piece of lamb, and, in some families, horseradish. The lamb is not eaten, but is a survival of the ancient and abandoned custom of blood sacrifice as it was first practiced in Egypt...
...sooner had the gavel fallen on the 67th Session of Congress, than junketing trips at Government expense began. "Junketing"-a word of obscure origin-means a feast, a pleasure trip, a good time, and has for years been applied to the custom of members of Congress to spend the Congresional recesses in traveling about the world on public funds. Junketing trips find their justification in being ostensibly tours of investigation in the interests of the people. In practice, they are just free vacation sprees. Inspection trips this year will take Congressmen to Panama, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia...
...disrespect for Mohammedan law exhibited by Mustapha Kemal on the occasion of his wedding feast...
...spring is gone.--just where we cannot say. A song without a soul--that is too much! So the engineers are going to bury the song with what fortitude they can muster. They must put it where the spectre can never escape to bring misery and dismay to the feast. Then perhaps, time which cures all ills will allow the feaster to forget that their glasses contain nothing but Bevo...