Word: genuflection
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...sidewalks of Pall Mall commenting audibly upon the personal appearance and regalia of helplessly belimousined princes,* peers, ambassadors, dowagers and débutantes. Finally at 8:30 p.m. the gates of Buckingham swung open. Exhaling sighs of relief, nearly 1,000 guests stepped through the Palace door, prepared to genuflect...
...story of primitive disagreements. The Moros of the south?tall, fearless, ignorant, stanch in their faith that there is but one God, Allah, and that Mohammed is his prophet?despise the little "paternoster-saying natives [of the northern islands] who genuflect to this saint's fingernail and that saint's shinbone." As it happens, although the Moros generally get along amicably with General Wood and the whites, they are forever getting into trouble with the constabulary and lesser officials, who are nearly all Christian natives. The big Moslems and the little Christians are always stepping each on the other...