Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Aden's title is a calculated come-on. The Duchess never finishes the well-known sentence and Author Arlen's advertised salacious spread, of course, proves a Barmecide's feast. His brillian-tined tale tells of a young, beautiful, rich but extremely respectable Duchess, a widow who is a model of propriety to less proper peers and inferiors, and of the ghostly suspicion that falls on her when London becomes the scene of a series of lustful murders...
Natalya Koussevitzky, obscure in her balcony seat, had her own feast-day coming. Two days after the Symphony opening came her 60th birthday. Koussevitzky, patterning himself after Wagner, had Symphony men go to their Brookline home, play an early-morning serenade to his good wife...
...Gennaro (St. Januarius), Bishop of Beneventum who was martyred about 305 A. D. In the treasure chapel of Naples Cathedral are a silver bust believed to contain San Gennaro's head, a reliquary holding two vials of what is supposed to be his blood. Last week brought the feast of San Gennaro. Into the Cathedral thronged clergy, civil officials and masses of Neapolitans. On the altar stood the silver bust. Bearing aloft the reliquary an officiant brought it within San Gennaro's view, turned it upside down to exhibit in one vial an opaque, solid mass. The crowd...
While Mr. Sinclair was stepping ashore in Manhattan, the rest of U. S. oildom was assembled in the rain at Titusville, Pa., celebrating the 75th anniversary of the drilling of the first oil well by the late Col. Edwin I. Drake. The celebration was no love feast. While Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania smiled on the speakers' platform, Axtell J. Byles of the American Petroleum Institute keynoted: "Upon the rock of rugged individualism this nation was founded...