Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first flecks of dawn came up over the low hills around Beirut one morning last week, a swarthy, bullet-headed Armenian trudged with leaden steps over the rough courtyard in front of the High Commissariat Building. Softly he crooned a Turkish song: "I have waited for thee, but thou hast not come." Before a crude, hastily constructed wooden structure, he halted. Above the planking, blackly outlined against the grey dawn, dangled a loose rope. Around the platform stood silent native policemen, Syrian officials. They had gathered to witness the hanging of Mejardich Karayan, the 29-year-old Armenian assassin...
...latter group are to be found a good assortment of rare creeds and unusual cults. Right in our midst there are a proud and effulgent sun-worshipper, a Taoist, a Shintoist, a Calvinist of Science, a Swedenborgian, and representatives of the Covenant Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Church...
Latin is not the only tongue in which Roman Catholic priests in the U. S. intone the solemn prayers and hymns of the Mass. In the byways of the faith, in many an obscure church, priests chant Greek, Rumanian, Arabic, Armenian. Slavonic and in many other details the rites they celebrate differ from those of Rome. Indeed, some of these priests may be married, provided they were wed before they became Catholic deacons. Named according to the rites they use. such non-Latin branches of Catholicism adhere to all dogmas, recognize the supreme sovereignty of the Pope...
...case was smart, 26-year-old Lawyer Jacob Stagman, who is becoming somewhat of a specialist in Dram-Shops actions. He has had three other such cases, won $35,000 for the mother of a man who was shot dead in a saloon brawl, another $1,200 for an Armenian who got his skull cracked during a crap game in a saloon when he persisted in kibitzing after a superstitious dice-thrower complained that he was a jinx...
Then along came an Armenian rugman with a luxurious 40 foot carpet but once more Lampy wasn't at home. And then came the climax of the evening. Not a speech by a prominent graduate, but another kind of speaker. One equally raucous, one equally unintelligible, but one of only indirect Lampoon descent. Just an old-fashioned goose. Sibi by name...