Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five formal dinners and five formal receptions are the toll of ceremonial entertainment which custom and etiquet demand of a President. Last week President Roosevelt began his seasonal duty, to end only with Lent. The new White House china was not yet ready, but the old White House wine glasses were polished up and brought out for the first time since before Prohibition. Two kinds of light domestic wine were served. The occasion was the Cabinet Dinner but this year it became the Cabinet & Alphabet dinner and the State Department's division of protocol made social history by deciding...
...calm lay last week over the Biblical lands of Gilead, Moab and Ammon where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan. Suddenly across the vineyards, the wheatfields and the deserts crackled news that the British Government of Palestine had lent $500,000 to Transjordan. To horse and to camel leaped the Arab sheiks, whipping their beasts hell-bent for Amman, the capital. Practically every tribal sheik in the country was in the mob that stormed the house of Premier Sheik Abdallah Sarraj, demanding...
What the Metropolitan got last week for its money was Watteau's excellent Le Mezzetin, whose full title is Le Mezzetin jouant de la Guitare. In 1932 Soviet Russia needed ready cash, dug Le Mezzetin out of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum, sold it to Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries. Wildenstein lent it last summer to Chicago's Century of Progress art show. It will be shown at the Metropolitan in January...
...doubled attendance in his big, rambling church. Once a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church from which he was ousted for heresy. Pastor Sheffer publicly flayed the churches for their machine-like governments, their excessive "talk about God." He encouraged dances in his quarters in the church, twice lent his pulpit to his good Presbyterian friend Norman Thomas. But it was not his theological or social liberalism that caused Pastor Sheffer to resign last week. Bluntly from his pulpit he explained...
Harvard Square will be treated to a delightfully archaic sight this afternoon, when at two o'clock precisely, especially privileged members of the Harvard Dramatic Club will climb aboard a chariot lent them by the Classical Club, and gallop off for the Repertory Theatre...