Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perplexed Manhattan's marriage license bureau last week when called upon to authorize the union of one of a pair of '"Siamese" girls to an orchestra leader. The friar, uncertain whether his twins contained one or two souls, solved his problem by baptizing one with the regular ritual, the other with a special ritual reserved for those whose previous baptism is in doubt...
Enthroned on the epistle side of the altar, the swart Apostolic Delegate looked cool and content. In mitre, gloves, amice, alb and stiff brocaded chasuble, 54-year-old Archbishop Curley perspired heavily but went through the ritual as valiantly as if he had not passed a winter of poor health and fasted 13 hours before the mass. Not so stalwart was many another Catholic in the Stadium. By the time the mass was under way people in the stands were dropping by dozens. By the time Rev. Dr. Peter Keenan Guilday, Catholic University historian, was in the midst...
Black. In Atlanta, like the Klan, the American Fascisti (Order of Black Shirts) have their headquarters (claimed membership: 30,000). For a $3 application fee they promise an "up-to-the-minute ritual and all the new features that a new Fraternity should have" to those who believe in ''a Supreme Being . . . in the leadership and supremacy of the White Race . . . a Bible in every school . . . Old Glory floating over every public building." They urgently oppose atheism and Communism...
...rival gangs and Goya, a husky, loud youth of 20, already a swordsman and perhaps a bullfighter, quickly joined the disputes. When three men were found dead in the streets one grey morning, he thought it advisable to go to Madrid. Here he drank and fought, observed the ritual of singing under windows, gained greater fame for this than for his occasional painting. On another morning he was found in the gutter with a knife sharp as an etcher's needle in his back, was smuggled to Rome by friendly bullfighters...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer or a mere economist were to urge upon the Episcopal Bench a change in the theology or ritual of the Church of England, his recommendations would doubtless evoke an appropriate expression of gratitude; but I doubt whether much weight would be attached to them...