Word: fetish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England, the Boston Transcript was alert. Bishop Jones had just made a speech there in which he said the U. S. flag should not be displayed in schoolrooms because of ''dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children." Bishop Jones further said that no man could worship at two altars, nationalist and Christian. Cried the Transcript to all patriots: "We are still old-fashioned enough to believe that the clergyman who advocates abandonment of the American flag and what it stands for has no place in American society, whatever his pretensions as a leader...
...Tactics at Harvard, and the Rev. Prescott Evarts, Rector of Christ Church, Protestant Episcopal, Cambridge, replied yesterday to the remark made recently by the Rt. Rev. Paul Jones, now acting Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, that the display of American flags in public school rooms was "a dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children...
...breaking of athletic relations between major universities is slowly coming to be a fetish. They become more macabre when viewed in the light of the apparently minor incidents on which they are invariably based. Beneath all this past exchange of blows, Harvard plays Princeton on the Yale golf course today. A natural corollary might be a meeting of Harvard and Princeton undergraduates on Yale soil to bury the hatchet. The suggestion is not new. It was proferred by the Yale Student Council at the time of the break. It might still succeed on one condition: that it be an undergraduate...
...Senator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Committee. A large part of the Senate agrees with them that the cruiser is essential for the protection of U. S. commerce, that the Navy's lack of cruisers should be rectified. Extremists in this group, making a fetish of navies, are rankled by British and Japanese cruiser preponderance. They demand a navy equal to any in the world, consider possible wars with England or Japan...
Throughout Europe the dry aspect of the Hoover victory continues to set best minds powerfully a-pondering. Suspicions stir that U. S. post-War prosperity may be due in large measure to prohibition. Just now the golden fetish of "American Methods" has wondrous kudos on the Continent (see France "American Methods"). In London last week the World Prohibition Federation held a belated mass meeting "to celebrate the triumph of Prohibition in the American victory of Herbert Hoover...