Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perpetual feast of nectar's sweets...
This morning the Vagabond has the privilege to suggest that if there are those old ones who would like to feast at the table of one of the most musical of philosophers they follow him to Emerson F at 12 where Professor Whitehead luctures. The Vagabond must confess he has attended these lectures for nearly three years. He still doesn't understand. But then again, as the philosophers themselves say, philosophy is a chase and the joy is in the running...
...supplement a Press conference, the President gave his annual Hyde Park picnic to correspondents. There was bobbing for apples, a game called "musical bumps," other Roosevelt family games without names, community singing. The feast included roast ham, salad, pie, coffee. On a little charcoal grill placed before him, the President prepared the picnic frankfurters...
Ethiopia's rainy season, which thus far has made war impossible, ends traditionally with a native feast day, set for Sept. 27 this year. Italian forces were moving up last week in the belief that their zero hour will come early in October. Any time before then Il Duce is open to a fresh and better offer from Geneva than the one made at Paris by Premier Laval and Captain Eden which he turned down (TIME, Aug. 26), and the one before that made by Eden in Rome which raised such a rumpus when the House of Commons learned that...
Obedient to etiquette, the Emperor, after bidding his foreign guests goodby. sat down with 5,000 officers and soldiers of all ranks to a characteristic Ethiopian feast of whole sheep and oxen, served raw and warm from the kill, and washed down with heroic drafts of tej or mead. Etiquette further decrees that such a royal feast shall close with Homeric boasting...