Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that 20 years ago I was a very sick man and I went to the best orthodox authorities, and except for such matters as surgery and dentistry, they did me no good whatever, and they charged me many thousands of dollars. Bernard McFadden taught me how to keep well and charged me nothing. So whenever I see "vicious" attacks upon him I rise to tell what I know...
...upon it books adjudged heretical. The first victim was a treatise by erudite philosopher Unamuno, the last a novel by author-poet Blasco Ibañez. Erring news gatherers chronicled this event as an "auto-da-fé"-an extinct form of inquisitional ceremony† of which the last orthodox examples occurred in the reign of Charles...
This result concludes but a trivial chapter in the rather provincial war of sects. Yet it is of such a nature as to suggest that tolerance is not entirely foreign to orthodox conventions and thus slightly to cheer those depressed by the Dayton trial, if such there...
...Grand Sheik of El Azhar called this assembly to order. It began to debate: 1) Who shall be recognized or elected Calif of Islam? 2) What shall be held to be the true and orthodox qualifications of the Calif? 3) If Islam is to have an elected Calif, who may be deemed at present eligible...
Significance. In these circumstances it appeared unlikely that the deliberations at Cairo will have any immediate effect. The Calif or Khalifa is, of course, the "Successor" or "Representative" of Mohammed, and is theoretically the temporal and spiritual sovereign of all Mohammedans. Strictly orthodox Mohammedans contend that the Turkish Sultans were never "true califs," charging that they were not actually descended from Mohammed. Since the Sultans of Turkey "assumed" (bought) the Califate in 1517, it may fairly be said to be "extinct" or "lost," at present, if their claims were invalid...