Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feeling that after all literary men should stick together, the editors of the CRIMSON extended more than the right hand of friendship last night when they lent the Lampoon a 50 pound punch bowl to help the funnymen celebrate their 60th anniversary. Not rich enough to rent one, Lampy at long last prevailed on the CRIMSON men to lend them the sacred punch bowl which has adorned the Plympton Street Sanctum these many years...
...simply let it be known that he will not operate in an exalted vacuum. When he sits down to elaborate Japanese foreign policy, he will take counsel with War Minister General Gen Sugiyama and Navy Minister Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai as often as possible. Minister Sato's promise lent weight to his opening speech before the House of Peers in which he keynoted an astonishing reversal of Japanese policy. Said he: "China demands to be treated on an equal footing. This wish should be respected and past differences forgotten...
...good Roman Catholics, Lent means 40 days of fast, abstinence, prayer, penitential works. Three Sundays before it begins, all churches are draped with mourning purple in memory of Christ's Passion. A change occurs on Laetare ("Rejoice") or Rose Sunday, when the Church bids her faithful for a day to look beyond the sorrows of Lent to the rejoicings of the coming Easter and when rose vestments and draperies are substituted for purple. To Pope Pius XI in Vatican City, Laetare Sunday last week was especially a day for rejoicing. With use of his varicose-veined legs partially restored...
...Garden of Gethsemane in which every leaf and blade of grass was meticulously modeled and painted. Every four and one-half minutes the lights slowly dimmed and the haloed plaster head of Jesus raised slowly heavenward. This was "the first animated diorama ever made of a religious subject," lent to Trinity by its makers, Diorama Corp. of America...
...Massachusetts, and died aborning. But Nevada is not Massachusetts. Nevada is a thinly populated State where easy divorce, open prostitution, licensed gambling and legalized cockfighting are only the more luridly publicized manifestations of a free & easy, individualist spirit deriving straight from the mining camp and cattle ranch. Realism is lent to the prospect of a tax-canceling State Lottery by the fact that Nevada has already launched an arresting promotion campaign calling attention to itself as "One Sound State" which...