Word: pilgrimate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom to scrawl on a piece of paper, 'El-Hadj Alemán,' (the German Pilgrim) and leave it prominently displayed. I must have done this 20 times...
...almost ludicrous. Here he was, a planner of big things and a doer of them, a substantial, efficient person who left nothing to chance, actually tripped and frustrated by an obstacle which had seemed microscopic only yesterday. He was a lion laid low by a mouse, a pilgrim to El Dorado who had stepped on a dust adder...
...great Boro-Budur in central Java is inferior to the Pyramid of Cheops in size it is an architectural chef-d'oeuvre no less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible of the late or "Mahayana" creed. The intent is that the pious shall climb from temporal vulgarities-depicted with unblushing naturalism in the lower galleries-to ever higher religious concepts which are exampled...
...born in 1706, becomes sentient about 1718. He is the young- est of a Massachusetts chandler's 17 children; cheerful, robust, precocious. He dares let himself be towed across a pond by his kite. He reads Locke, Defoe and the Spectator?authors of the Age .of Reason ?besides Pilgrim's Progress and Plutarch. His publisher-brother is jailed for sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author of the articles runs the Courant's circulation up to a dizzy 40, sorely vexing the Rev. Cotton Mather. His brother, out of jail, jealous...
...Pearl of Great Price. Released, at last, from an eight year entanglement with red tape, The Pearl of Great Price reveals itself in the theatre, a cheaply glamorous morality spectacle. The Pearl, symbol of maidenhood, is sole heritage of a pulchritudinous orphan, Pilgrim. With zest, relish and a cast of two hundred, the production smacks its lips over the struggles of Greed, Idle Rich, Lust, Shame and the rest, to possess the dainty maiden's treasure. In the course of an artful procession of temptations, Pilgrim, after standing naked for one coy half-second, despatches Lust. The court returns...