Word: paganization
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...fine goose-stepping Reichswehr march past and more shouts of "Hoch Siam!" Then they motored to the most imposing medieval stronghold in East Prussia, famed Marienburg Castle, onetime seat of the "Teutonic Knights,' a motley crew who left off crusading for the pious work of converting pagan Prussians. Coming from the Near East, they brought with them Oriental ideas of architecture. Last week Their Majesties spent a whole afternoon minutely examining a vast moated palace as grotesquely strange as some of the temples of Siam. "Really, you know." said King Prajadhipok. "I am very interested." In the visitors...
Indignant at the vote for Statehood, Professor Clemente Pereda who hunger-struck for independence (TIME, April 9) demanded the formation of an Independence Party. Angry that the Professor should seek to split the Nationalist Party (which also carries the independence banner ) Student Francisco Pagan Rodriguez assaulted Patriot Pereda. In no wise had seven foodless days permanently incapacitated the Professor. With one roundhouse right he floored his assailant, proceeded to pummel him until they were separated...
Respectable authorities have assigned Christ's birthday to every month in the year. Widely celebrated with independent local feasts throughout Christendom, by the 4th Century it became settled upon Dec. 25, possibly through the influence of old pagan midwinter festivals. Long before Professor Gerhardt of Berlin could make use of astronomy in his researches, the church father Hippolytus picked April 2 as Christ's birthday. Arguments against its falling in winter are that this is Palestine's rainy season: the Romans would not have then held the census which brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem; nor would...
...first time in 91 years the bones-teeth, bits of jaw, tibia, femur-were placed in a handsome new relic room in St. William's Chapel. In each box was a time-yellowed "authentic" identifying the saints whose bones the relics once were: Theophilus, Vincentius and Aelius, pagan Romans who became Christian, were martyred about...
...maid-of-all-work. Lixlee was a natural born maneater. Having a slight cast in one eye. her direct gaze (which she rarely unleashed) had a disturbingly hypnotic effect, especially on men. She knocked Anson over with the first glance. Married to Lixlee and enjoying a completely pagan nightlife, he perked up considerably. One night, because he had to tear himself from her arms to go to a dying woman, they quarreled. Pretty soon he began to suspect that somebody else's hat was on the hatrack. His jealousy and shame drove him to drink. Lixlee was diabolically cunning...