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...Roman Catholics as villainous conspirators against the U.S. Their bedsheets became robes emblazoned with ornate embroidery, and they invented a whole new thesaurus of Klanonyms. There were the Kleagle and the Klabee, the Kladd and the Klaliff, the Klectoken and the Klexter, the Klig-rapp and the Klokan, the Klokard and the Kloncilium, the Klonklave and the Klonvokation, the Kloran and the Kla-rogo, the Klorero and the Kludd.* In the Klan Kalendar, the days of the week were named Dark, Deadly, Dismal, Doleful, Desolate, Dreadful and Desperate; the weeks of the month were Woeful, Weeping, Wailing, Wonderful and Weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VARIOUS SHADY LIVES OF THE KU KLUX KLAN | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...Kleagle, Klabee, Kladd, Klaliff, Klexter, Kligrapp, Klarogo, Klokan and Klokard are officials of various sorts; Klectoken is the initiation fee; Kloran is Klan bible; Klonvokation is the Imperial legislature; Kloncilium is the Klonvokation's advisory group; Klonklave is the Klan's monthly meeting; Klorero is a state meeting; and Kludd is the chaplain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VARIOUS SHADY LIVES OF THE KU KLUX KLAN | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...Coolidge, flanked on either side by pictures of Washington and Jefferson. The meeting was opened by the Grand Dragon of Nebraska. Then the Imperial Wizard, Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans of Atlanta, appeared, accompanied by his Kloncilium (Cabinet) consisting of 15 genii: Klaliff (First Vice President), Klazik (Second Vice President), Klokard (lecturer), Kludd (chaplain), Kligrapp (secretary), Klabee (Treasurer), Kladd ("Conductor")*, Klarogo (Inner-guard), Klexter (Outer-guard), Klonsel (Attorney), Night Hawk (Courier) and the four Klokann (auditors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: At Klansas Sity | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...monthly gatherings that most Harvard aspirants were "naturalized" over a year ago. Of greatest interest during the period of affiliation with the Cambridge chapter was, according to information received from a Harvard Klansman, a meeting held on October 3, 1922 addressed by William James Mahoney, Imperial Klokard. For some reason, however, the Cambridge branch failed to appeal, and by the spring the Harvard members transferred to the Brookline chapter--number two of the metropolitan district. The reason for the break in Cambridge was, according to the separate statements of three Harvard members due to the fact that the control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE FACTS APPEAR ON HARVARD KLAN | 10/25/1923 | See Source »

OKLAHOMA: The Reverend W. G. Mahoney, imperial klokard of the Klu Klux Klan, told the Legislature: "This country has a super-government. We must break it. We will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE STATES | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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