Word: rite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...striving, like her son, to revivify the Wagnerian Festivals of Baireuth, which were ruined by the War. These festivals were instituted with enormous efforts by Wagner himself, and were the living embodiment of the strange worship that attended him in his later years. They became a cult, a rite of adoration. Readers of the Nietzsche-Wagner correspondence will recall that the philosopher, for a long time the devoted friend of Wagner, broke away from his idol in large part because he was repelled by the adulation and the molasses of flattery that Wagner accepted and enjoyed from the host...
...Capital News Service, speaking for the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite in the South, declared that the present Congress cannot afford to sidetrack the bill. "The pressure ... is overwhelming. Every patriotic and almost every fraternal order is behind it. Churches indorse it. Teachers, schools and colleges, alumni associations and undergraduates are for it. Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations demand it. Parents want it. School organizations want it. Almost every-one who knows anything about it wants it. ... The time has come when the United States should do as much for education as it does for wheat and corn...
...Southern Jurisdiction of the Order of Scottish Rite Masons in convention at Washington, sent its felicitations to the President, saying that it would not subject him to a handshaking visit. The President replied by letter: "It is an example of friendly thoughtfulness...
...morning of the eclipse, faint clouds may have spoiled some of the Einstein plates. A far more serious difficulty was encountered in the Indians who at first were determined to prevent the observations, thinking them some sort of a religious rite which might offend the native rain god. On being assured of the good intentions of the observers, however, the natives became even more objectionable in their desire to look through the telescopes...
...111th annual meeting of the Supreme Council, Thirty-third degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite...