Word: host
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allied labor also banded. In the elegant Paris headquarters of Confederation Generale du Travail, C. G. T.'s Secretary General Leon Jouhaux played host to Sir Walter Citrine, since 1926 Secretary General of the British Trades Union Congress, in the first of a series of monthly conferences on the two countries' labor problems. Last week the problems seemed to be all on the French side. Leader Jouhaux complained that his followers, theoretically on a 40-hour week, work 72. Though he claims nearly 1,000,000 members, he is allowed no representation in war ministries...
Surrounded by such dignitaries as President Conant, Alfred North Whitehead, Heinrich Bruening, Dean Hanford, and host Julian Lowell Coolidge '95, Harvard's president from 1909 to 1933 performed the now traditional ceremony of cutting his birthday cake, which was brought in by famed Bellboy hostess Mrs. Mary Healey...
Central act of the Roman Catholic faith is the sacrifice of the Mass, which commemorates and re-enacts the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross. Central mystery of the Mass is the consecration, by the celebrant, of the Host (wheaten wafer) and wine, which become, according to Catholic belief, transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of the Lord, and are consumed by the celebrant. Later, smaller wafers ("particles"), which are consecrated (and thus transubstantiated) at the same time, are distributed in Holy Communion. There must be some left over, to be placed in the tabernacle on the altar. These...
...insure that the consecrated Host shall not be subjected to indignity or outrage, the Catholic Church has legislated in great detail. Last week the Primate of England's Catholics, Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, reminded his priests of what they should do in case of an air raid during Mass. If the Host has not been consecrated, said His Eminence, the Mass should be stopped at once, to be resumed later if possible. But if the consecration has been performed, the priest must consume the Host and wine, then end the Mass. Should the Host be lost during a raid...
...Manhattan's most fabulous characters, known to every reporter in town yet mentioned rarely and discreetly in the press, blew the lid off his own story by standing on his head at the Metropolitan Opera House. By so doing, in the midst of a brilliant host of spectators who had gathered to celebrate opera's seasonal opening, Richard Allen Knight became news...