Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pilgrims. Ultimately, 100,000 were expected. Indians, mestizos, pure-blooded aristocrats-every class except government (antireligious) officials -were present to do honor to Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. With smashing crescendo of clanging bells, electric illuminations, masses, there will be celebrated this week the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There is an especially composed Guadalupe Hymn. Next year has been officially designated Guadalupe Year. In the archdiocese of Guadalajara, all female infants baptized in 1931 have been named Guadalupe, all boys José Guadalupe. This, by the archbishop's decree, has caused considerable confusion...
...which he is Colonel-in-Chief, last week. With buttons shined and a large sabre strapped to waist, he handed newly embroidered standards to two kneeling subalterns while the drums rolled. After these ceremonies he adjourned to the Town Hall to sup oysters at Colchester's annual Oyster Feast...
Subject of the paintings is the marriage of Quiteria from Don Quixote. Forced into narrow, high panels, the kicking, squealing characters of Artist Sert literally stand on each other's heads to fill the space. Celebrants at the wedding feast include leaping acrobats, hoary strong men, bull tamers, jugglers, drunkards, surrounded by great billows of silver and claret-colored drapery. Other than those which Artist Sert has painted into his compositions, there will be no hangings in the Waldorf's Sert Room. Paris critics credited the paintings with "the potency of a Michelangelo . . . daring of a Goya . . . more...
...into the region but were forced back by hostile tribesmen. Last week two natives emerged from the bush with the story that Trist's airplane had crashed, that the pilot had struggled on foot to the nearest village, that the villagers had butchered him, eaten him at a feast...
Pope Pius XI faced last week the approaching feast days of St. John, St. Peter and St. Paul. Was it possible to keep Italians from celebrating these great days with public processions? Would there be more religious mutinies against the Pontiff's order of no more parades during his conflict with Il Duce (TIME, June 22). Already three towns had defied the order, parading on St. Anthony's feast day fortnight ago. What...