Word: riting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Public sentiment forced Mills into the match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over the sophomores in the annual class rush, waited on table and shined shoes (as an initiation rite). In 1907 he beat Vane H. Fennel for the right to play Mills again, and after one of the hardest court tennis matches ever played in England (it lasted two and a half hours) he won the world title, five sets to three. Mills said that he had lost because...
With such proverbs as these, Indians have for centuries coldly praised the suttee: "a good woman" who allows herself to be burned to death at her husband's funeral. The British have, of course, largely stamped out this rite, but only after the most appalling struggle...
...John XIII: 4, 5, 12, 13, 16, 34. On Maundy Thursday (the Thursday before Easter), "Maundy" being derived from the Latin "mandatum" (commandment) and referring to the "new commandment" given by the Savior. James II was the last English monarch to perform the rite of washing his subjects' feet; but since the time of Charles II "Maundy Pennies" (especially minted without milled edges) have been distributed by the Lord High Almoner. In all Catholic countries and at the Vatican the rites of Maundy Thursday are elaborately observed, although the ritual varies
...Easter Rite. Throughout Mexico pious citizens celebrated Holy Saturday by burning, mangling and blowing up with firecrackers effigies representing Judas Iscariot...
...Rome" attended the formal translation of the semirigid Italian dirigible Enone into the Norge, in its hangar at the Ciampino Airdrome at Rome. The distinguished company gathered about the air leviathan's cabin while Mrs. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, wife of the ship's second-in-command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft at the bag's stern. Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next...