Word: relic
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There is a curious resemblance between this relic of past life and certain relics of present life now in the making. There have grown up in the shadow of Flaubert with his dull and unfortunate M. Bovary a race of writers who call themselves "realists." These Realists have much in common with our Imagist poets, especially in the common method of transcribing rather than transmuting whatever of sight or sound or smell comes to them through their senses. This photographic process, which eliminates the emotions and sympathies of the author, has at present the resource of shocking the public into...
...Relic worship is discouraged and the abolition of celibacy for the clergy* proposed...
...While I was staying at Munich, for example, I went to one of the banks to draw some money on my letter of credit. It was the Dresden bank, once one of the most prosperous in Germany. It was located in an enormous building which was a relic of its former prosperity. It had marble floors, and massive columns supporting a high arched roof. For hours I waited my turn at the crowded window. And when finally my turn came, all the money that that great bank was able to allow me amounted to less than two dollars...
...sacred relic was kept in the chapel, and news dispatches do not tell whether the chapel was destroyed. The cause of the conflagration has not vet been discovered...
...whole village took part, it was decided to give no portion of the Passion Play in America. The act which the hundred players will perform will be a version of life in the Bavarian village, with especial reference to their woodcarving craft. Thus the tradition of 1644, a unique relic of medieval piety, is partially saved from the taint of commercialism