Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dentist, had invented the "Knights of the Forest" as a painless method of extracting $1 from each & every Klansman. Salaries had to be paid, and it would have been unwise to levy an unembellished assessment. The "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual...
...never realized. The moth perishes due to her neglect, and her child, her ultimate justification, dies stillborn. Then Horace, in spite of the fact that he is opposed to Catholicism, shows an odd streak of under- standing by having the moribund infant baptised according to the Roman ritual in order that it may be immortalized...
...signify what Baptists usually do on similar occasions, TIME chose the word "ritual." It was a poor choice...
TIME, Jan. 2, p. 6, col. 1, "In Ohio," line 17, "Baptist ritual...
...have been a member of a Baptist church 47 years and an ordained Baptist minister over 30 years. I have spoken at Baptist conventions city, county, state, provincial, inter-provincial, national and international from coast to coast in the United States and Canada. But I have never met "Baptist ritual." It is time for me to do so. If you will be so good as to furnish me a copy or advise me where I can secure one I shall be pleased to pay all the expenses and be delighted, interested and surprised to get the information which has eluded...