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...tenth anniversary of the Advocate was celebrated with a wild "decennial feast," as prior to its birth a series of five magazines had had a combined life of but sixteen years. Present were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Professors James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton. Advocate memoranda of the time record that "representatives of the Crimson and of the new-born Lampoon were allowed to share in the feast of reason and the flow of the soul." The only "distressing" aspect of the affair was that it ruined the paper financially...
...party had hired a cab in Zurich, and gaily roller-coastered 60-odd miles through the Alps to Chur. The ceremony itself was an intimate ten-minute affair at the local registry office. The wedding feast: coffee and cakes in a patisserie. Then back by cab to picturesque Zurich. Then off to Bern and the Hotel Bellevue...
...came from the Progressive Conservatives in Parliament who cried that the "Government was out to outsocialize the socialists." But the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, which represents the farmers, announced that they were "100% behind the bill." The Government had counted on the farmers' long-standing dislike of the feast or famine days of free trading in wheat before the war; it promised that if it did the trading it would stabilize wheat prices and farmers' incomes...
...Feast of Peace. On the walls of the working-class district beneath the Parthenon, scrawled slogans gave a chronology of Greece's sorrow...
...Said the mayor of a village in the Tempe valley: "For months I have been trying to bring peace to the village. Not long ago I organized a big feast in the square. Everyone shook hands and said that henceforth they would live in peace. But in the middle of our feast, eight gendarmes walked up to the table and told all royalists that, if they did not leave at once, they would be considered traitors. So they left. Two nights later, the Communists attacked the gendarmerie post and shot all eight of them. Three days after that, a rightist...