Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following morning. Through flagwaving crowds he drove from the city, visited fishing villages, pineapple and sugar plantations, out to Schofield Barracks to lunch with Major-General Briant H. Wells, review 15,000 troops. That evening he dined at Iolani Palace with Governor Poindexter. At a great luau (native feast) he received the great men of the islands, was robed in a leather cape which made him a member of the island nobility, did not get away until midnight to his bed at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel...
...asking they would gladly take him fishing for the great a'u (swordfish) in Kona waters, drive him through Hawaii's fern forests, show him sugar-cane fields, pineapple plantations, the leper colony, crown him with leis, feed him poi (taro root paste), or entertain him at a native feast (luau) with straw-skirt ballet...
Suddenly the clouds broke and M. Barthou, his beard bright with smiles, gave a dinner which turned out to be a love feast. Haggard old "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was shoved into obscurity, his plan dropped. Agreement was then reached on three points: 1) The Disarmament Conference will not act on Soviet Commissar Maxim Litvinoffs proposal that it turn itself into the Permanent Conference for Promotion of Peace but will submit this idea to all governments; 2) the main Disarmament Conference will adjourn this week until autumn but several committees will bask along in Geneva all summer; 3) the work...
...street. unaware that they were missing a feast, might have pointed out more than one reason for the genteel hullabaloo. Thomas Mann is a Nobel Prizewinner (1929). This was his first visit to the U. S. Hitler's victims, if sufficiently presentable, are popular in Manhattan. Author Mann brings no topsy-turvy social message; even a banker is safe in his company. Though some of his books have been best-sellers in Germany, his finespun writing will never appeal to the U. S. masses. But the man-in-the-street, more than half right about the smokescreen, would have...
...Their feast over, the merchants streaked off for the beauty contest in the Auditorium, where a Miss Tennessee, a Miss Mississippi and a Miss Arkansas won hands down. After that there was a socialite tea, a horse show, and at night the President's Ball at the Tennessee Club, in honor of "Memphis Bill" Mallory. Somewhere during the previous proceedings Mayor Overton had been presented with a basin billed as Cleopatra's authentic bathtub, "4,000 years...