Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neurath was explaining to British Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps that in ten days Adolf Hitler would be delighted to receive Sir John Simon, would surely have no cold. As an odd Hitler gesture of appeasement, the Realmleader promised to prepare for Sir John's visit by the ritual of several days of meditation among the Bavarian Alps "breathing their pure, inspiring German...
...Once erroneously ascribed to secret rites of the Celtic Druids, they are now known to have been left by a wiry, long-headed people of the late Stone Age who gave way to the metal-wielding Gauls. They buried or cremated their dead and the stones evidently served some ritual or memorial purpose. Last month Professor Andre Guenin, cataloguing Brittany's megaliths, took the trouble to climb a 100-ft. butte ten miles from Carnac, found an unknown group of monuments including an elliptical cromlech and five dolmens, three of them almost perfectly preserved. One immense dolmen consisted...
...long years, "in what you are writing about me, please do not talk about the 'brother of the moon' or the 'twenty-four umbrellas.' I am not the moon's brother. That is all bunk. There is a nine-tiered umbrella in our Siamese ritual, but I have no idea who invented the titles usually ascribed to me. . . . I like the English countryside. The Queen and I have done a lot of motoring. Perhaps we may take a holiday now. I admit I am feeling rather tired...
Once morbid Japanese ripe for Death would dispatch themselves with a dagger, elaborately disemboweling themselves in a ritual of exquisite pain. Today such heroic acts of hara-kiri ("belly-cut") are rare. Suicide has gone cheap, and last week Japan's go-getting suicide tycoon, owl-eyed Jinnojo Hayashi, scored another coup. For the second time this year sensation-hungry tourists at his Suicide Point witnessed a triple plunge into the sulphur-stinking maw of Death...
...repeal had abated," The Complete Wine Book proposes to tell U. S. amateurs how to know, buy, store, make, serve wines. Far from first of its kind in the field, it is most complete, most up-to-date of the lot. Written plainly, authoritatively, it attacks the "ridiculous ritual" and "absurd snobbishness" which have sprung up around U. S. wine-drinking, appeals to common sense rather than pretentious palates...