Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portrait of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen (founder of the Nationalist Party), swore to uphold Dr. Sun's famed Three Nationalist Principles, and finally invoked three times as a potent witness the spirit of SUN YATSEN. When President Chiang had thus sworn, he was followed in the same ritual by five lesser Presidents, each of whom will administer one of the five Yuans into which the Nationalists have now divided China for executive purposes...
...sacrifices?" A crowd of several hundred people were waiting outside the police headquarters; they dispersed, gradually and angrily, when they heard that Barbara Griffith had been found walking in a forest, and that the rabbi had denied that Jews murdered children, or, nowadays, even animals, in any of their ritual...
...fourth degree oath of the Knights of Columbus. There are those, however, who know better, and who have spent thousands of dollars circulating copies of this oath among ignorant Protestants. Aware of this and aware also that the oath has never and will never be a part of its ritual, the Knights of Columbus, meeting in National Conference last week in Cleveland, promised to prosecute six unnamed organizations and persons, for disseminating the bogus information...
...himself wrote the oath. The career of the bogus oath has been obscure; five years ago it was considered obsolete; recently no less than a million copies have been handed about. The Knights of Columbus offered $25,000 to anyone who could prove it to be part of their ritual. No one bothered...
...conducted himself at the end of his picnic. After the explosion, said Albert La Frenière, Father Dubuc stood up in the stern of the boat and, while his clothes blazed brightly, lifted his crucifix and granted absolution to the five who were with him. Having recited the ritual of his church, he said to his guests, "There is nothing else to do. We must jump into the water." Later, when the body of Father Dubuc was found, it was discovered that the first flash of the explosion had certainly burned his eyes to blindness...