Word: feasts
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...Almost on the feast of Pentecost (May 28), the day on which the Church of Christ emphasizes the supranational, supraracial character of her mission, we learned that the Government of Hungary had agreed to enforce against the Jewish people a code of discriminatory laws. We were told that this unhappy segment of Israel in Hungary is being herded into ghettos after its homes and its shops had been systematically looted and pillaged...
Before the week was out, Stokowski and Ponce had a love feast. The composer broke out a bottle of 100-year-old cognac...
...veteran Aussie officer, known up & down the territory, made the keynote speech: "Japan man he come never no more." Then the drums boomed, flutes shrilled, voices chanted, dancers swayed and stomped in frenzy. When the hour came for the immemorial roast-pork feast there was not enough to go around: him hungry Japan man had combed the jungle clean of wild pigs. But him white fella man more than made up the lack with bully beef and flour. Never in fuzzy-wuzzy memory had there been a finer sing-sing...
...study of the 1941 distribution and demand for fresh produce in ten leading U.S. markets was less encouraging than the feast. Main fact: the carriers' present rate for fresh produce is 77? per ton-mile...
Weather Is Whether.... In the midst of all this plenty, Authors Pearson and Paarlberg rose like skeletons at the feast to point a bony finger. Said they: "The food program has been subservient to the inflation program whereas the inflation program should be subservient to the food program." Their point is that "the nation has been trying to prevent visible inflation by fixing low ceiling prices, and in so doing has effectively encouraged consumption of highly prized foods." Result: consumers are doing precisely what their ration books have been unable to prevent-they are eating more and better than...