Word: rite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last month a small young woman whose chest expansion exceeds that of mighty Jack Demp-sey- traveled from city to city in the U. S. Every night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone...
...simple spell, the rite not for the word...
...everyone knows, the entire rite has now fallen into almost complete disuse. It is often represented in French revues, several of which have toured the U. S. without the least idea on the part of the local authorities or spectators as to the significance of what was being done before them...
...Black Mass," as this rite is often termed, is designed to attain utter blasphemy by burlesquing the Eucharist. The usual procedure is to steal a portion of the consecrated bread during a mass celebrated in the ordinary way. A mock priest, robed in black, holding the cross upside down in his left hand, then performs backward the usual ceremony. The chalice is first filled with wine and then with water. The mock priest, symbolizing Satan, then eats the bread and tramples on the cross. When several persons participate, a general orgy usually follows. Louis XIV, when he celebrated the Black...
...operate between the two upstate cities. In 1831 service began with the first run of the DeWitt Clinton, the tiny locomotive usually exhibited in the Grand Central Terminal. This day last week it was permitted to labor over its old run to solemnize the celebration. In .further rite a bronze tablet was unveiled in both the original terminal cities. The same evening the railway dignitaries and their guests were back in Manhattan dining...