Word: paschall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each 14th of Nisan for 33 centuries, millions of Jews throughout the world retired to their homes to partake in the Passover ceremonies symbolized by eating bitter herbs and unleavened bread, by the presence on the table of a lamb's roasted shank bone in memory of the paschal lambs whose blood had saved their fathers when the Lord smote Egypt. Unmindful were they of those Jews who 19 centuries ago had abandoned their faith to worship Jesus, whose descendants for centuries had at the time of Passover commemorated the Paschal Lamb Whose blood had saved the world...
...this near two weeks out of our monthly reckoning. Now Easter Day is to have the full moon resplendent no more in her sky. . . . It is pretty bad. We're going to stop being lunatics after all. The moon is to be evicted from her last retreat, the Paschal Date. For my part, if they standardize Easter for the sake of Trade (as Christmas is lost in rubicund sales ads) what will remain? Only lovers in rural lanes will hereafter lift their eyes through glittery foliage and salute the orb. . . . A standardized calendar will do away with our last...
Married. Carolyn McDonald Walters Bronson Burgess Chevallier Garden White Luigi Hatfield Willis Paschal, 57, Louisiana's most-wed woman (TIME, May 18, 1931); and Robert McManus, 50, wholesale fish dealer; in Columbus, La. Widowed three times, divorced eight times, mother of 16, the bride uses the name of Hatfield, her ninth...
...candles in church is older than the church itself. Liturgical candles are traditionally of beeswax, for bees were once supposed to be virgin. The great paschal candle typifies Christ's flesh, its wick His soul, its flame the all-absorbing Divinity. On Candlemas Day (Feast of the Purification, Feb. 2) there is a special ceremony for blessing candles. A burning candle is placed in the hand of a person at baptism, and as Death comes...
...letters. Said he: "A lot of them have been from women who want to know where they can buy tickets on the race next year. . . . There are a whole lot more women after that information than men." Also after lottery information were Buffalo police who arrested one William H. Paschal, charged him with being chief agent for the quick distribution of $50,000 worth of tickets in the "Kentucky Derby sweepstakes...