Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mass (or "Lord's Supper") the priest blesses or consecrates a certain physical amount of bread or wine or both for distribution to the participants in the holy feast. (In the Roman Catholic Church, only the priest drinks of the wine; in the Protestant Churches, the communicants may also drink thereof.) If the total amount of bread and wine so consecrated is not consumed by those attending the service, these "elements" may be "reserved." That is, having been blessed, the bread is put into some sacred place and may later be "adored" by the worshippers. That is called "reservation...
...given the purple zucchetto, a skull cap which ranks him as Bishop where-ever he goes. The zucchetto was conferred in person by Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, who said: "Had it been a red zucchetto it would not have been too much." The monks celebrated by giving a feast to all their guests, although they themselves took their own plain fare from pewter bowls. Only in one respect did they depart from the etiquette of their vows. They talked a little. Cardinal Dougherty, referring to a recent visit to Rome, described the Pope as showing plainly the effects...
...Majestic (White Star) : Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, President of the National Woman's Party; Georges Carpentier, "gorgeous orchid man," and his manager Francois Descamps; Gilbert Miller, head of Charles Frohman, Inc., who brought several new plays including The Roman Feast by Ferenc Molnar, author of The Swan, The High "C" by Ernest Vajda, author of Fata Morgana; Miss Teddy Gerard, vaudeville actress who has been in England for several years...
...selected from the Book of Common Prayer nor authorized by this Church or by the Bishops of this Church or the Bishop of this diocese, which you described in your printed announcement as an office and eurythmic ritual in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Feast of the Annunciation and also as a festal service in which service or special order of worship, in disregard of my counsel and admonition, you used and permitted to be used eurythmic or other dancing in the said church...
...sundry reserve funds of $163,260,622, its approximate surplus of $180,898,914, and its undivided surplus (including subsidiaries) of $512,751,220. Total assets are now $2,420,882,000, even under the Steel Corporation's notoriously conservative valuations. The steel industry may be an alternate feast or famine, but it would take a siege of unimaginable length to starve out U. S. Steel...