Word: monkish
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Heading aggressively into the stormy problem of protection for political minorities (viz. German communities in Poland), Germany's solid, monkish Stresemann had announced that he was not satisfied with the Council's treatment of minority questions, would appeal to the World Court and the League Assembly for a "positive, crusading attitude rather than a negative, legalistic one on behalf of oppressed peoples...
...pages to support his long crimson and white train. At one side of the Altar sat Her Majesty, Mary, Queen and Empress, clad in a long, shimmering cloak of gold tissue with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve new Knights of the Grand Cross of the Bath...
...limbo of medieval credulity. Dean Robert Bell Burke of Pennsylvania, after four years' labor with the key discovered by a colleague, the late Dr. William Romaine Newbold, announced completion of the world's first translation of Friar Roger's 800-page Opus maius, prodigious cryptogram in monkish dog-Latin that men had thought might contain marvelous secrets.* Particularly was a skeptical world interested in knowing whether, by any rare chance, Friar Roger had actually possessed an "elixir of life." Alas, the Opus mains revealed he had not. He had only, in his scholarly way, described...
...mystical Glastonbury Abbey, 20 years ago. A friend of Architect Bond's, one John Alleyne, had been the medium for messages in automatic writing. "All knowledge," the ghost had assured them, "is eternal, and is available to mental telepathy." Later had followed a rough drawing, which some monkish Latin described as the lost chapel of King Edgar, 30 yards long at the Abbey's eastern end. This threw light on certain cryptic manuscripts. Architect Bond dug, gave up, consulted the ghost again, received fresh instructions, dug again and found King Edgar's masonry...
SOCKING, the Eton College term for a treat, synonymous with CHUCK at Westminster and other schools. Believed to be derived from the monkish word SOKE. An old writer speaks of a pious man "who did not SOKE for three days", meaning he fasted...