Word: rite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before despatching this splendid symbol to Brussels, his Holiness waited until mass was over, then blessed the Rose, sprinkled it with holy water, read the ancient prayers of the Rite of the Golden Rose, and imparted his Apostolic Blessing, while a master of ceremonies held the gift in his hands, kneeling at the Pope's feet...
With dismal groans and yells we'll drown Your mournful burial rite...
Twelve male Light-Bearers have been introduced as accessories to the annual ceremony of the Temple Sleep, thitherto participated in only by Mukalinda and his brides. A rebel arises in Manland, demanding shares for him and his wild fellows in the rite. The Light-Bearers themselves are infected with revolt and there is a year when the dedicated maidens have nothing to report of their sleep in the temple save pleasant dreams. The maidens smell fraud and burn the temple, whose flames signal a lusty and welcomed invasion from Manland. In the orgy of innocent rapine and surrender that follows...
This is all very disconcerting and "rite trewe" men cannot but view with alarm this tendency to revolt on the part of the younger generation. Why would it not be a excellent thing for both Harvard and Princeton to trade Freshmen for a while for the good of their souls." No, that wouldn't do, for when it came time to trade back the Princeton freshmen wounldn't go home...
...where stands your editor who insists upon bringing independent intellectual standards into the making of his paper? Can you imagine the editor of "The Tobacco Journal", house organ of the Chu Rite Tobacco Co., refusing to "support the company"? Picture him publishing an article in his paper that was contributed by the Anti-Tobacco League! Preposterous! He would be fired in a hurry. His paper exists for the purpose of breaking down sales resistance and inspiring languid salesmen. Let the college editor go and do likewise. Let him spend his time puzzling out ways of selling his college...