Word: rite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year 1929, I paid a very delightful visit to a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons in Constantinople. There was a banquet and facing me on the other side of my table was a medium-sized, modest man of cheerful, friendly and unassuming manner who did not use tobacco. We talked through an interpreter who sat at his side. I was very much interested to learn that this very modest gentleman with whom I was talking was General Kemal, the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War. General Kemal the defender, when introduced, explained that while...
...Subscriber Wonders henceforth beware of the exceedingly modest, middle-sized man who sat across from him at a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons' banquet in Constantinople (now Istanbul). There is only one "General Kemal the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War" and he is today the Dictator of Turkey, Mustapha Kemal Pasha...
...railway station (TIME, Nov. 24), I do not recall any mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in the station) by Buddhist high priests. Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion, an innocent-looking stone from a tomb was included in the platform. Then things began to happen-which resulted in a series of untoward occurrences. . . . There have been several cases of derailment...
Died. James Isaac Buchanan, 77, president of Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse & Transfer Co. and River & R. R. Terminal Co., director of many a utility concern, onetime Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Scottish Rite, longtime member of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, holder of other Masonic offices; from a fall on an icy pavement; in Pittsburgh...
...which requires that the King be Orthodox, and went through a Catholic marriage ceremony at Assisi, Italy. It poured that day. In thunder, lightning and rain they left Italy for Sofia. Storms lashed their ship all the way. At Sofia they went through another marriage ceremony according to Orthodox rite-with great pomp and publicity (TIME, Nov. 10 et ante...