Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the world last week all Jews celebrated the last day of the Passover feast.* But in the three great centres of Jewry?historic Jerusalem, young Tel Aviv and New York City?the celebrations differed vastly...
There should never be starch in napkins, dresses, shirts, for starch is Chometz, which is leaven. The house must be thoroughly cleansed of Chometz. The night after the feast a father or a grandfather may tell the little ones of the house to say only half their prayers, for that night "God is nigh to his people." Thus may begin the holy feast of the Passover, symbolic of liberty, memorial to the exodus, and to the night when the Lord's angel slew the Egyptians' first-born but passed over and left unbereft the homes of the Israelites...
Dedicating the clinic on the feast of the Passover was typical of Straus donations. Philanthropist Straus likes to commemorate festivals by gifts. On his 80th birthday last year (Jan. 31) he sent $100,000 to Jerusalem's Zionist leaders. His name is inevitably associated with milk. He has established milk stations throughout the U. S., conducted pasteurization campaigns in the U. S., Palestine, Great Britain, France...
Last week came definite news of what Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti's first momentous step outside the Vatican would be. On June 24, feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist, he will step into his new Fiat car and drive to the Church of St. John Lateran,* where he will celebrate a mass. The papal motor will contain a sort of back-seat throne, where the Pope alone may sit. Facing the throne will be two chairs where high dignitaries will sit. Thus no one will sit beside the Pope and none, except, of course, the driver...
...surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio Portes Gil: "I have the honor to inform you that the traitor Escobar (rebel generalissimo) continues to flee without fighting, and we continue our advance...