Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other two men in the story, however, are too orthodox to live in complete harmony with such spontaneous unrepresed people. The father, a Dutch banker, tries very hard to be broad-minded, but he can't quite make the grade. The moral behavior of the girl's "uh--friend," as the banker describes him, is the most delightfully surprising of all, even though it may be the hardest to reconcile with the idea of a real, consistent personality...
...save him from figuring in Pravda and Izvestia as "a participant in orgies who had disgraceful relations with nuns." Frail old Vitalius was put down for "wrecking, espionage and other subversive activities." The official newsorgan Gorkovskaya Kommuna affirmed that the Brotherhood of Sobriety, an organization of young Orthodox girls, was founded by church dignitaries to recruit young women to become the sweethearts of Army & Navy men and wheedle military secrets to be sold to Germany and Japan. One Orthodox bishop was described flatly as a "Japanese agent...
Moscow correspondents, refused official information, picked up from terrified Christians reports that not only the Orthodox but also the Lutheran clergy are being "ruthlessly purged." Although the Government did not admit the arrest of the Metropolitans no one in Moscow doubted that it had taken place. Stalin's crusher was once more at work...
Gorgeous though the Greek Orthodox ceremony was, with the Archbishop of Athens and 40 bishops officiating in dazzling, bejeweled regalia-Greek guests in the Cathedral seemed to be chiefly fascinated by the fact that the pale blue satin Paris gown of the Duchess of Kent was closed all the way down the front with a zipper. After the Orthodox wedding the royal pair were joined in holy matrimony a second time by a Lutheran pastor from Germany, then went to be legally married by civil authorities and the bride was recorded to have changed her name from the German Frederika...
Married. Lucy Tew, daughter of Manhattan Socialites Mr. & Mrs. William H. Tew; to tall, slender Georgian Prince Georges Dadiani, Parisian perfumer (Matchabelli); in an hour-long Eastern Orthodox service; in Manhattan...