Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most holy Feast of the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi, a legal holiday in all Latin countries...
...third and placid speech at Milan?the speech of a man who has dined and is content. ". . . It is unnecessary to recount what the Fascist Government has done for labor. We think of your interests, all your needs, because we love you as workers and fellow-Italians. Today's feast of labor shows how the regime respects labor and the workers...
...Reds. Because overt radical agitation and the economic condition of the nation follow the same cycle. Communist leaders in the last fat prosperous decade have starved politically out of public sight. The last lean year has brought them suddenly to the surface, to gorge themselves on hard times, to feast on unemployment, to stage Red demonstrations throughout the land. Alarmed by the spectre of radical resurgence, the House of Representatives last week voted (210-to-18) to start a Red hunt of its own, through a special investigating committee...
...India the natives, naïvely do sometimes hold That savage elephants are sobered, (so at least I have been told) By a camel's bitter biting of their thin ears flapping fold. Once from Agra and from Oudh, all the people came to feast And to stand in glamorous gazing at grandees from out the East. Allahabad's ancient altars, Allah ruled, were not the least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish...
...York, has for 25 years entertained members and guests of the club with his annual readings, similar to those held at the Union each Christmas. The dinner, announced by W. G. Wendell '09, club secretary, will be attended by prominent writers of the day, and should prove 'a feast of wit and reason...