Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seal inscribed in Hebrew: "To Gedaliah, who rules the house." Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, was an honorable and generous man ("gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil") appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to govern conquered Mizpah (Jeremiah 40: 7-16). The Feast of Gedaliah is still celebrated by orthodox Jews the week before Yom Kippur...
...enter college, boys and girls take college board examinations that deal chiefly with orthodox cultural subjects...
...Quakers have little ritual, no priesthood. Their societies are organized simply: in Monthly Meetings (one congregation), Quarterly Meetings (representatives from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (representatives from several Quarterly Meetings), General Conferences (numerous Yearly Meetings). Last week two important Yearly Meetings gathered in Philadelphia, citadel of Quakerdom, where some Orthodox Monthly Meetings still object to hymns with music and hired preachers...
When the sense of the two Yearly Meetings, Orthodox and Hicksite, had been taken by their respective clerks, these two largest U. S. Quaker societies (91,326 and 16,105 members) were well on the way toward healing a schism, that had parted them for 108 years...
...Hicks, a Long Island farmer and itinerant preacher, presumed to dabble in Unitarianism, question the divinity of Christ. He was ousted from the Society of Friends, founded one of his own, gave his name to Hicksville, L. I. which still is a Quaker centre. Though for a time an Orthodox Quaker hastened to cross the street when he saw a Hicksite coming, the sharp distinction between conservative and liberal dulled with time. Only an expert eye can detect the small religious difference between Herbert Hoover and Haverford College, both Orthodox, and onetime Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Swarthmore College...