Word: cults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a notable scandal developed when a group of bourgeois sadists set out from Bordeaux to the little town of Bombon, once the seat of Marshal Foch's General Staff, and there flogged an alleged recalcitrant member of their cult, the Abbé des Noyers...
...Bordeaux cult, the noted order of Nôtre Dame des Pleurs (Our Lady of Tears), has flourished for 21 years, since its foundation by one Mme. Marie Mesmin, "Sainted Mother Marie" (onetime concierge), and a Syrian priest, "The Archimandrite Sibourgi," who in 1920, quarreled with Mme. Mesmin, "laid a curse upon her," and returned to Syria...
...Abbé des Noyers declared last week that, far from being a member of the cult, he had originally been called to Bordeaux at the request of Mme. Mesmin, who wished him to dispel her curse...
Theosophy itself is an inoffensive cult of universal sweetness, light, passivity. Mrs. Besant is a lady of undoubted kindness and some scholarship. She holds a doctor's degree (Litt. D.) from the University of Benares, India. According to Captain Jones, she now plans to appoint twelve "apostles," including herself and several other ladies, to tour the world with the haloed Krishnamurti. Whether she intends anything more than a superlative theosophic lecture tour, with or without a Messiah, depends upon the accuracy of Captain Jones's information...
Trained in the old school of Tsaral diplomacy, M. Georg Tchitcherin, now Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union, represents a late and almost perfect flowering of the outworn cult of secret diplomacy. He still employs all its stock phrases, catch-subterfuges which seldom deceive a rabbit-for example, he never "goes on a mission" but "travels for his health." Yet when cornered and pressed for categorical answers to specific questions he speaks with the adroit tongue of a sibyl or a Machiavelli. Last week he arrived at Paris as expected (TIME, Dec. 7), and the Olympian game of interrogating...