Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...15th of Tishri (Hebrew Calendar) which occurred last week brought with it the Jewish festival Succoth, "Harvest Feast," "Feast of Tabernacles," "Feast of Ingathering," "Feast of Booths," as it is variously called...
...wherever possible, by living in thatched huts, as did their ancestors on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah, the yearly reading of the" Law is completed. Then there is a riot of rejoicing which the Mishnah, Talmudic commentary on Mosaic Laws, reflects in the phrase: "He who has not seen the joy of the libations of Tabernacles has never in his life witnessed...
...Feast...
...Sing Sing Penitentiary, N. Y., William Hoyer, Negro, waiting in the Death House to repay society for the slaughter of his wife and five-year-old daughter, availed himself of a standing privilege and composed the menu for his Death Feast, the last meal he would ever consume. Mr. Hoyer's menu...
...along the Atlantic coastal plain, acquired the same tactics. This became all the easier when the New Englanders commenced filtering south for the sake of the cheap mountain labor of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. And last week these bitter competitors were bid to an agape, a love feast. As they assembled at the Biltmore, they scarcely knew what to expect...