Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Channukah, Jewish Feast of Lights, of Dedication, came again last week to remind devotees that a man's home is not only his castle but his temple...
...Theodore de Daragic declared that each year should be divided into ten months, each month into six weeks, each week into six days. This would account for 360 days. "The remaining 5," said Dr. de Daragic, "could be added to the year as a series of holidays, each feast to be named after a great man-the first after Jesus Christ, the second after Columbus, the third after George Stephenson (part inventor of the locomotive), the fourth after Robert Fulton (perfecter of a paddle-wheel steamboat), the fifth after Henry Ford...
Gautama had been married at 19 to a beautiful cousin. When she was delivered of his first-born son, his village held a great feast and a nautch dance, but late in the night when the torches were out, Guatama awoke in great agony of spirit, "like a man who is told that his house is on fire." He stepped through the vestibule where the nautch girls were lying in darkness striped like a tiger's skin with moonlight. He called for his horses and rode away...
...London many a great baron of beef* was roasted. Many a vast tureen of steaming turtle soup was carried to that annual and immemorial feast, the Lord Mayor's banquet at Guildhall. This year the "new" Lord Mayor is Sir William Pryke, aged 78† and "spry as Peter...
...howling darkness 5,686 years ago. The horn rang at sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good cheer. In The American Hebrew appeared a symposium on "Liberalism ? the Gospel of the Open Mind" with articles by Governor Smith, William Allen White, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell...