Word: paganization
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...Easter was in the beginning a pagan spring festival to which the early Church affixed the idea of the Jewish Passover and of the Resurrection. This year the first Passover Seder occurs the evening of Easter Sunday, April 17, a coincidence Church calendar calculators long tried to prevent...
Professor McDougall is the author of several books of psychology, some of which are "Physiological Psychology", "Social Psychology", "Body and Mind", and "Group Minds." After extensive travels in Borneo, during which he made a detailed study of the native and their customs, he published a volume entitled "Pagan Tribes of Borneo". The last of his works which have been published are "Is America Safe for Democracy" and "Ethics and some Modern World Problems...
Zealous, he has ordered that in school hours they must all wear shirts as black as his. Fanatic, he commanded last week that every day they shall recite three new commandments, brief, pagan and patriotic...
...holy flash of black struck at Negro Harlem last week, like a taffeta ribbon across a naughty face. Pagan blackamoors ceased their capers and their vices, to grace the passage of a band of Negro nuns, the Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, who, showing a quaint solemnity, were opening their new chapel to the Negroes...
...mythical tired business man; to others it means wandering home to pick up well-intentioned neck-ties and a little rest. For others, it is rumored, the Christmas Spirit hovers over the ice-caked board walks and the dust-laden air of Widener. The Christmas Spirit, though, is pagan-hard and Christoan-strong enough to disregard such unessential differences. We are all brothers, under the skin or in a shopping crowd. And so, to everyone, like this Christmas spirit and tuberculosis seals, go the sincere wishes of the CRIMSON for a very merry Christmas...