Word: pious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demonstration took the form of a cavalry charge by 150 horsemen up the leafy avenue of the Summer Palace. The cavalrymen were of 21 nations and are in Holland as equestrian performers in the famed Olympic Games (see p. 24). Netherlands recalled that Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina exhibits a pious, Protestant aversion for the Olympic Games, which she regards as a deplorable pagan survival from the pre-Christian days of Ancient Greece...
Enough to set hairs a-standing on pious Mohammedan heads would be a proposal to cover the broad, flat floors of mosques with hateful, heathen pews...
However, since the present ruling class of Young Turks are not pious Mohammedans, it was natural, last week, that the Commission on Religious Reform, recently appointed by President Mustafa Kemal Pasha should recommend: 1) Pews to cover the floor of every mosque; 2) abolition of the mosque slipper and prayer rug; 3) installation of organs, choirs...
...Pious Mohammedans rightly abhor such of their brethren as are so hypocritical as to drink spirits with the alibi that they are not drinking wine. Similarly Queen Wilhelmina has her own pious opinion of people who indulge in sport on Sunday, the Lord God's appointed Day of Rest. Therefore Her Majesty has been put in a quandary by the famed Olympic Games, now being held in Amsterdam with a pagan disregard of Sunday...
...final matches, which will come in early August. Never, since the Olympiad was revived at Athens in 1896, has the Head of any State which has been host*to the Olympians refused to honor them. But last week Queen Wilhelmina voiced the equivalent of a refusal. Firm, logical, pious, she declared her intention of spending a two-months' holiday in Scandinavia. Prudent, she will leave behind to inaugurate the godless Olympiad, her useful Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...