Word: mysticism
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...defeated 6 to 0 the "All-Eastern Eleven," whose players hailed from West Point, the University of Michigan, Florida State, Pittsburgh, Drake, Iowa, Georgia Tech, etc. The proceeds of the fray went to the local Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were responsible for staging what proved to be a combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic Shriner, tossed a football from the 23rd floor of the San Francisco Telephone Co. Building. Then he tossed another- and another...
...after all, is it imperative that the world know for a certainty whether or not Moses joined the Past Temple or the Mystic Shrine? Surely this does bean a few of the earmarks of irrelevant erudition. Each man to his own fancy makes a happy world. But one cannot help wishing occasionally that the best scholars would sometimes deliver unto the press columns something more edifying than their dynamic drivel...
...Grange upon whose back the mystic '77 has flashed, upon whose head the laurels of pen and public have been hung, Red Grange, hero and iceman, now announces to the world his choice of a career. He is to abandon college for professional football. And when he divulges the nature of his future team, a team which can include no player who has not finished a "college career"--bachelor of football, then there need be no more uncertainty as to his real value as an accessory of a college...
...vain his disciples clamored for his liberty; in vain they pointed out that without anything but water, mystic words and prayers, he had cured members of his faithful band of dreadful ills. Scientists explained that he was harmless; the annals of abnormal psychology are filled with such examples of monomania. Said a doctor who examined him: "I sincerely believe that if he lived during the twelfth century he would have been heralded as a saint, but as it is he is seized as a lunatic...
Schooled in the apathy of the mystic, in the ataraxy of the Oriental stoic, the teacher sat quietly upon the tack and conducted his class. Then, when he had ended his lecture, he expelled them all. Thus did tradition of the East vanquish the smartness of the West in a Turkish seat of learning...