Word: genuflective
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...Pittsburgh, Rev. Thomas Francis Coakley of swank, well-publicized Sacred Heart Church (which acquired an electrically-heated baptismal font last year) issued a pamphlet, Church Manners. Price: 10?. The pamphlet tells when to sit, stand, kneel, genuflect (drop briefly on the right knee) during services. Some other observations...
Considering that Governor Lloyd Stark of Missouri is part owner of one of the world's greatest apple orchards, located, of course, in Missouri; considering that Missouri is the nation's foremost producer of apple butter; and considering that all true . . . collectors of apple butter memorabilia genuflect to Missouri apple butter's superior flavor; I herewith extend to the latter an invitation to join the newly-formed Apple Butter Devotees of America (Missouri charter). Governor Stark is to be invited to be honorary life president of the society, which organization will take precedence over all lesser groups...
...grim, black-pompadored woman was dressed in black. Over her head was a borrowed crown that Napoleon I had used when in Rome. First to genuflect came Duke Maximilian of Hohenberg, the assassination of whose father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, set off a war in July 1914. The chances that they were paying homage to a future Dowager Empress were better last week than they had been in a long time...
...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...