Word: rice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first event of the last series of pageants consisted in "pleasing" the sun goddess Amatersu Omikami (divine ancestress of the Emperor) by playing to her primeval and mystic music which lasted through the night. Then with elaborate ceremony the Son of Heaven offered boiled rice and strong drink to the Sun Goddess, partaking with her of the food and Sake. On succeeding days three grand banquets were held at which five of the most noble ladies of Japan performed symbolic ritual dances which each Tenno gazes upon once. Followed an imperial pilgrimage by Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako...
...never lived by plunder. When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts. Delighted and dazzled, the local farmers are usually all too glad to barter rice and other produce for the soldier's work...
...have just returned from this great Northwest. It is a wonderland of broad spaces and fertile fields. There melons grow to thirty or forty pounds. It is a land of opportunity. All the land to be opened to settlers is fertile land, capable of producing rice and with large trees whose girth would take three men to span...
...Specialty Act S. W. Burbank '29 4. Liebesfrend Kerisler Narcissus Nevin Narcissus Nevin Mandolin Club 5. Specialty Act J.S.B. Archer '31 6. Gold Coast Orchestra 7. Specialty Act Robert Reinhart '29 8. Landsighting Grieg The Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club 9. Football Medley Arranged by Rice Banjo Club 10. Fair Harvard Combined Clubs
...Trial. The Warner Brothers' Vitaphone gets a thorough trial in this oldtime courtroom melodrama by Elmer Rice. The verdict: well cast, well talked, well acted, but with a few awkward pauses. The action consists entirely of courtroom testimony with flashbacks to show the events leading up to the murder. It is gradually revealed that Husband No. 1 was justified in killing Husband No. 2, because Husband No. 2 had treated the wife of Husband No. 1 in a dastardly manner. Best shot: a sleepy judge. Best acting: 44-year-old Pauline Frederick and 8-year-old Vondell Darr...