Word: pilgrimate
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Thirteen centuries ago Mohammed gave a spiritual and material boost to his native Mecca by calling upon his followers to make a pilgrimage thither at least once in their lifetimes. Pious Moslems have been making the Haj ever since, thus gaining the privilege of: 1) being called Haji (pilgrim), 2) wearing green turbans, 3) dyeing their beards red with pounded hennaleaves...
...PILGRIM'S WAY-Lord Tweedsmuir-Houghton, Mifflin...
...alma mater) and Harvard, where his millions provided U. S. versions of the Oxford college system; Columbia (a library, medical funds); Phillips Exeter Academy and other preparatory schools; the Commonwealth Fund (upwards of $50,000,000 for rural hospitals, medical research, education, etc.); Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum; the Pilgrim Fund (to serve "the most vital needs" of Great Britain...
...bring in the crutches. But not for Ludwig. While other mimes and ballerinas were hung and propped, while even the desiccated swan on the backdrop drooped under the caresses of a clambering nymph in white winter underwear, Ludwig stood it out. But as the music trailed off into the Pilgrim's Chorus, Ludwig sank to earth, plaintively opening a black umbrella...
...nary a tree on the place. Stephen Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust...