Word: pilgrimate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...
Twelve hundred strong the modern pilgrims--otherwise known as English Congregationalists--will debark at Boston and make a tour of the historic shrines of the earlier Pilgrim Fathers. Whether or not they intend to instill in the present generation the standards of the earlier Puritans is not yet known, but the possibility seems unlikely of their succeeding, although they will hold a service "of reconsecration to the principles of the Pilgrim Fathers." Then, seemingly against their purposes, they will proceed to New York where they will be duly entertained in the wicked city...
...long string bean, in color a prepossessing tawny chocolate, and in motion either sinuously undulant or mechanistically "jazz mad." Would she, whom smart Paris has huzzahed at the Folies-Bergere and toasted at her own night club, Chez Josephine Baker, be rudely welcomed among Viennese as is the hardy pilgrim who ventures among disapproving skunks? Prudently a strong police escort was accorded Miss Baker between the station and her hotel. Thereafter, although a few students skulked in the vicinity for some hours, La Baker was not subjected, last week, to ordeal by bombs...
...Bill" Thompson; but the direction of Sir Esme's lance was evident when he commenced to tilt, thus: "We have heard so much lately from another place of the danger of British propaganda in this country that I was beginning to wonder whether the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers gathered here to celebrate the landing of their ancestors at Plymouth might not have feared that the presence of the British Ambassador tonight might bring with it some dread infection of the terrible disease known an Anglo-American friendship. It is, of course, a most dangerous malady and may lead...
...deemed the superficial differences but fundamental similarities between Britons and citizens of the U. S. Concluded he: "Whatever the differences between Americans and English may be-and they are many-they have at least in common these two great ideals in government that were brought here by the Pilgrim Fathers and the other early English settlers, because they have inherited them in the blood: 'No taxation without representation'; and, 'No revolution against the declared will of the majority.' To that extent we can always understand each other, even if other things are difficult of comprehension...