Word: pontius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman Catholicism -even to orgiastic massacres of Judas and Pontius Pilate in effigy. Author Seabrook records these matters with a humble sympathy rather than the traditional amused condescension. His humor he reserves for black naivetés, his condescension for white stupidities. The result is a thoroughly fascinating Voodoo document, interspersed with comic relief. The "Magic Island" is Haiti, four days...
...Cartel des Gauches. At the same time he tacitly admitted that the Cartel has rallied and gained sufficient internal unity to make it almost impossible to force the Briand-Doumer measure through the Chamber. Confronted by this annoying impasse, the astute M. Briand decided to make the gesture of Pontius Pilate while at the same time continuing at the helm of France. Briefly he "washed his hands" by declaring that the Chamber must decide whether it wanted the Doumer plan or the Cartel plan. At the same time he blazoned abroad that whichever plan the Chamber chose, he would...
...Stratton--Porter of the "Lentulus Legend" concerning the personal appearance of Jesus Christ. According to the legend, the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar sends an envoy, Publius Lentulus, to Palestine to secure information concerning Jesus of Judea. Lentulus reports the power and Influence of the Christ upon the people under Pontius Pilate. The Emperor is so much troubled and impressed by the report that he sends his master craftsman to draw the likeness of Jesus. This picture when shown to Caesar in Rome is so striking that he orders it transferred to a huge emerald from the treasury...