Word: gras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...date came as the glory that was Greece in a sheet and I came as the grandeur that was Rome in a curtain." Philip A. Stone '62 reflected yesterday, commenting on the large and boisterous Mardi Gras Ball held on the sixth floor of Quincy House Saturday night...
...week responsible New Orleans moderates turned out 1,600 strong for a testimonial dinner to five members of their board of education who have been battling the state legislature in an effort to obey the court. But tensions were high. On the eve of New Orleans' famed Mardi Gras more than 100 Negro organizations canceled their usual celebrations. Schwegmann's supermarket chain advertised a formal denial in the Times-Picayune that sales of ice picks and lye have been heavier than usual...
Just as the Christian Lent produced the custom of Mardi gras, so the Moslem fast of Ramadan, ninth and holiest month of the lunar calendar,* has long led to peculiar accommodations in Islamic countries. For 29 or 30 days every year, the devout, who must abstain from food, drink, tobacco and sex from dawn to sundown, make up for it by overindulging and undersleeping during the hours of darkness. When Ramadan, on its 32-year migration through the solar calendar, happens to fall in summer, many a weary Moslem gives up, sleeps the whole fasting day through. Tempers grow short...