Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judging human quality. With a single sniff at a man's trouser-leg, they determine his social standing; one leap against his chest is enough to inform them of his character. It is more difficult fora man to judge of the excellences of a dog. He requires paraphernalia-ropes, lights, leashes, a specially constructed pen, an exhaustive training; often his fellows gather in great packs to observe his judgments, which they confirm with shrill murmurs or deride with rasping growls. Last week such a display took place in Manhattan at the annual dogshow of the Westminister Kennel Club...
...concerned first for true culture and second for Yale tradition. He does not seem to realize that the malady at Yale is not the "Big Man" attitude not the spirit of competition, but the solemn sacredness of tradition. Harvard has competitions, club-elections, and all the other inevitable paraphernalia of undergraduate activities, but they fall to hamper true culture, simply because the system is not worshipped by the majority of students...
...capture were so great, that it is only natural that a whaling museum should have grown here. We have added to it constantly so that now it has as fine a collection of things pertaining to whaling as is to be found anywhere in the world. All kinds of paraphernalia, log-books, pictures, and scrimshaw, which was the artistic work of the sailors, in engraving and carving whale ivory, have found their way into the museum. The prize of the collection, however, is a model of a whaling bark, built on half-scale, which is large enough to allow people...
Reverend Potter does not recommend, however, that the full paraphernalia of Japanese ancestor worship be adopted. An American touch is to be gained by substituting extensive use of the radio for periodical visits to tombs and shrines. And were only the Eastern mystery of an ancestral fetish to be considered, there could be no doubt as to the popularity of this new radio religion. Inasmuch as it may be interpreted as thinly disguised propaganda for the intensive study of American history it seems, at least among the "rising generation" foredoomed to failure...
...prefer to tear the secrets of the ages from TutankhAmen's breast in a day. Howard Carter and his staff have removed large quantities of highly decorated treasures, many of which are on exhibition in Cairo. Aided by 10,000 candlepower lights in the tomb, telephones and all the paraphernalia of civilization and modern archeological science, they are patiently removing and restoring the canopies and accessories surrounding the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh. But the casket itself will probably not be opened this year, nor will two other chambers crammed with rare objects. It is quite probable that the tomb...