Word: pilgrimate
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...crayon map on which they said the Ukraine had been incorrectly drawn-a charge hotly denied in New Haven next day by the drawer, Moppet Walter Matwych whose parents are Ukrainian. Leafing on through the scrapbook, the Moscow children pointed disapprovingly to a pasted-in-picture of Pilgrim Fathers giving Red Indians a turkey dinner on the first Thanksgiving Day. "Quite capitalistic!" they commented, "Quite bourgeois! Here the white colonists are fraternizing with the natives, but not long afterward they began to liquidate those same natives. Where are the Indians today...
Some tepid discussion followed. Then, fortnight ago, a Protestant nunnery was described in America, urbane Jesuit weekly, by "The Pilgrim"-nom de plume for any staff member. Telling of tramping through Rhode Island, "The Pilgrim" said he came upon a convent, knocked at its door in hope of getting a cup of tea. The convent Portress gave him some. He inquired the name of the sisterhood...
...Prioress explained to "The Pilgrim" that the sisterhood had been founded because of the Christian Century discussion...
...Pilgrim" departed she said: " 'I know just what is in your Roman mind. You wonder how we shall ever get along. Well, I sometimes wonder myself. But our proposition does show that Protestant women have learned the beauty of Catholic sisters' life, and that nuns are actuated by a positive, constructive ideal, not by mere longings to flee the world...
When people began telephoning its Manhattan office, America's staff was forced to confess that the "Harmonians" do not exist. "The Pilgrim" invented them...