Word: cult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, where she was appearing at the Paramount Theatre, famed Fan Dancer Sally Rand revealed that she had been offered "a big sum" to indorse nudism. Said she: "The offer shocked me. I knew that if I endorsed it, a lot of fat old men would join the cult just to see me without fans. It made me sick that my lovely dance should be confused with such things. All the nudists I ever saw had scratches all over their rear ends where they had been sitting on thorns...
Yellow journalism, as a cult, is complicated and interesting; its high priests have been more venerated in America than elsewhere, and more dangerous. The first article in its creed is that all of the basic problems, all of the really sensational problems of our society, should not be touched; the large type is reserved for those who are either helpless or insignificant, who can be expected to feel the storm without retaliation. Superintendent Gill of Norfolk presented an obvious opportunity. He is a subordinate state official, engaged in a revolutionary penal experiment, without important political or financial backing...
...wife get up in the morning about 6 or 7 am and go out. don't cook or clean the house she say she got to go to the cult to a Breakfast meeting. Of course after you turn over all your belongings to the cult you get a name and ride around in the cars. you are called one of the intermediate worshipers. so I suggest it would be a good Idea if the government or the judges would get together and put a stop to this, my wife is beginning to be a cult fanatic or religious...
...Germany. The French Press raged that Chancellor Hitler was demanding immediate re-armament-which was not strictly the case-and French Premier Edouard Daladier. speaking at Vichy, held up the Fatherland's request for "samples" and rejection of "supervision" as evidence that Germany is ruled by a "cult of force." Most striking, however, was a British warning to the Reich, said to have been dictated by Sir John Simon after he received Prince Bismarck and hastily inserted in a speech which the Cabinet's Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, was scheduled to make that night...
...Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property of Rossetti. He often said he would marry...