Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearances." Chicago Tribune's David Darrah and United Press's Dan Rogers broke stories that the Archbishop of Canterbury is slashing the Coronation Service right & left in efforts to get it as short and unfatiguing as possible, has decided to omit the sermon, hopes to telescope the ritual from a service normally of about four hours' duration into one, starting at the Abbey at 11 a. m., with the King out of the Abbey by 1:30 and back in Buckingham Palace...
...story which the rest pf the world was devouring (see p. 14) but the Homeric tale of that martyr, Nazi Leader Wilhelm Gustloff, who is a likely candidate for canonization when the Paganists in Germany can spare time from their baiting of Jews and Christians to develop a ritual...
...Slightly indisposed," Emperor Hirohito of Japan suspended the nation's autumn harvest thanksgiving ritual at which he was expected to offer rice to the Gods of the Imperial Sanctuary...
Parallel meetings of crematory and cemetery owners in Chicago last week revealed part of the big business which goes on behind the religious ritual of Death. Undertakers, florists and monument men do $500,000,000 worth of business a year in the U. S. Casket manufacturers do $65,000,000 gross. Crematists. a growing profession, take in $1,500,000. Priests and parsons make anywhere from $5 to $100 per funeral...
...Near Hyderabad, a palm tree followed Hindu prayer ritual, bowed to the ground every day at noon & sunset...