Word: rite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easton, Md. enclose a true statement of the tragedy using your own form and phrasing, as far as it adheres to the truth, and urging that it be given exactly the same prominence in your magazine as the one referred to and which we consider irreverent to the sacred rite of baptism...
Seven days after birth the babe will receive a name, painted by Emperor Hirohito on a sheet of soft white paper, carried with pomp by an Imperial Messenger into the infant's presence. Same day Japan's Crown Prince will get his first bath, a rite of such antiquity that all its meanings are no longer known. While the babe is washed attendants will twang on bow strings as sages seated behind a screen read in loud and awful tones eloquent passages from ancient books...
Another Sunshine Home rite was to bandage the wrists of naughty children tightly. Mrs. Kraeuter denied that she told the culprits their hands were cut off. But the feeling of amputation would be so real that one morning one of the little blind girls came running to an attendant crying: "Look. Miss Ennis, there's blood all over my shoes. They cut off Frank's hands last night...
...Stay-Rite Tie Co. Milwaukee...
...Renault cars around to fetch a successor to fallen Premier Edouard Daladier (TIME, Oct. 30). When the limousine went out at last it sped to the Navy Ministry. There a great gourmet, one of the most discriminating connoisseurs of food and wine in France, had for once missed the rite of luncheon, waiting anxiously at his desk for the expected summons of President Lebrun...