Word: cult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical cases. Padre Pio and Therese Neumann were forbidden to receive pilgrims. Padre Pio was ordered to cease singing mass in the Apulian village where a cult almost of sainthood has grown up around him. The Holy Office put on the Index Expurgatorius the large amount of mystic literature written around Padre Pio, and suppressed a community of women called the "Little Hosts" which, founded in his honor, had grown too impassioned and hysterical. Also disciplined were...
...busload. Sayville's Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance forbidding parking for more than 30 minutes in Macon Street. Rev. Major J. Divine, the bald little Negro, provided free parking space on all the land surrounding the three big houses into which had spread his thriving cult of '"Heaven...
Germany happened to prove fertile ground for the Wigman idea. The formal ballet never flourished there as it did in Russia and France. The average German is ungraceful and the Wigman doctrine demanded less grace than it did muscular control carried to scientific perfection. Her cult, called tanz gymnastik, spread wholesale among housewives and factory workers who found the exercise profitable. Wigman ideas were modified and taught in the public schools. The Wigman Central Institute in Dresden was subsidized for a time by the Federal Government. Unauthorized groups have used the name of Wigman in Boston, Cleveland and Seattle...
...Leonids--artistic dancers, species of leopard in Central Asia, members of a Swedish youth cult, meteors...
...feels herself "one with the elemental things, the primal things" (TIME, Jan. 5). But the reason for her large following lies in the fact that the gymnastics she teaches are simple, far easier to master than formal dance steps. There are thousands of Wigman dancers in Germany. The cult is growing fast in the U. S. among women who find the exercises exhilarating to mind and body. Still another reason for Wigman dancing was advanced last week in Manhattan by Dancer Erna Wassel, pupil of Dancer Wigman. It will help women pedestrians with their traffic problems, she said, and forthwith...