Word: festal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geddes' vitality and versatility seem sufficient to permeate even so vast a project as Chicago's. He is donating his services and he contemplates the work with a festal excitement which no salary could induce. Architects and designers enjoy world's fairs as spectacular outlets for their creative urge, and this time Chicago will not tolerate a stale display of plaster-of-paris Classicism, bad Byzantine and garbled Gothic. The architecture will be 20th Century in spirit and detail...
...four festal occasions come and go--Columbus, the Puritans and the Gods of Appetite, Washington, and the gentlemen of the rebellion--all receive their due homage of a day less of academic work at Harvard. And the dean suggests that all remember that this is not a vacation--but a holiday. Of course one could suggest that remembrance of anyone is not necessarily the mental pleasure of a day that this time could be with profit, added to Christmas vacation. But few would agree. One must honor one's ancestors, and a slay without classes is such a true delight...
There are now only three such museums in the world: Louis XIV founded the Chalcographie du Louvre to preserve in etchings the military and festal splendors of his reign; the Regia Calcografia, founded in Rome by Pope Clement XII, contains 15,000 plates; at the Calcografia Nacional, in Madrid, you can buy a Goya* print for a peseta...
Statisticians recalled that the population of Berlin is now estimated at 3,804,000, which places the festal gustatory expenses of Berliners at roughly 105 marks a head, including liquid refreshment...
...Prayer nor authorized by this Church or by the Bishops of this Church or the Bishop of this diocese, which you described in your printed announcement as an office and eurythmic ritual in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Feast of the Annunciation and also as a festal service in which service or special order of worship, in disregard of my counsel and admonition, you used and permitted to be used eurythmic or other dancing in the said church...