Word: rite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defeated him and against those in his own party who regard him as a discredited liability. Last week came a golden opportunity to flay the former, assert his titular party leadership to the latter when Young Republicans from eleven Western States met 1,200 strong at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, Calif. It was the 31st President's first strictly political speech since he left Washington. It was also the first formal forensic broadside of the Republican Presidential campaign. And Herbert Hoover rose...
Another amusing picture is a water color portraying the religious rite of washing a white elephant. The animal is way out of proportion, and two attendants can be seen standing between its ears, scrub-brushes in hand...
...first President of a new and independent nation. Next autumn the U. S. will launch the Philippine Commonwealth as a new and independent nation in its own image. Last week Filipinos got down to the serious business of electing their first President. The affair promised to be no patriarchal rite...
...bourgeois with their wisecracks and giddy japes, indulge in a few harmless bedroom scenes, fall in & out of love, flit back to Paris again and continue their galvanic act until their stage manager's timely curtain. Samples of their epigrammar: "Two gongs don't make a rite." An engagement "is exactly like giving a hungry man a menu and then turning him out of the restaurant." ". . . Genius is merely an infinite capacity for growing pains." Those who know Gertrude Stein's famed motto may snicker at "A Rolls is a Rolls is a Rolls...
...luscious speeches come to ripe fruit. Just as the air is about to be like wine tonight, the castle menage, an enchanting crew of Italian peasants, bustle on the scene. It is a real pleasure to watch them become completely disrupted over the performance of a sinister English rite-the hot bath. Moments like this are heightened by handsome sets and adroit low-key photography. But alas, the story creaks back to the laborious business of restoring Miss Harding to the arms of her repentant husband...