Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country. Fifty years ago a painted brown plaster Rogers Group was a standard fitting in the parlors of U. S. Respectability. With the colored lithographs of Currier & Ives and wax flowers under glass bells, they marked the sunrise of artistic appreciation in the country. The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia. It stood in the bay win dow, between the Nottingham lace curtains, where it could be seen from the street. Most of the 87 groups were modeled by Sculptor Rogers with...
...Yahrzeit, anniversary of the death of any good Jew, a candle is lit in his honor. In synagogs and homes every Friday night candles are burned, and candles figure in many a Jewish ritual observance, particularly Chanukah, the Feast of Lights (or Maccabees which celebrate the recapture of Jerusalem by Judas Maccabaeus in 165 B.C. This year Chanukah begins Dec. 24, lasts eight days. One says, "Shalom! a very happy Chanukah!" There are parties, the children play the game of trendel with a spinning top, eat lathes (pancakes) and potato kugel, receive Chanukah gelt (gifts). One may not work...
...Fork tied up its products with religious observance much as Clicquot Club Co. (ginger ale) tied up its bottle caps with unemployment relief. It announced that a special 2? stamp tax would be placed on all Yahrzeit lamps, and a graded tax from 1? to 10? on all ritual candles. The proceeds will go to the New York Yeshivoth and Talmud Torah funds, which maintain Jewish parochial schools and rabbinical academies in the city...
...Mary sat a little lower than King George. Edward of Wales sat below his parents' dais. Glittering peeresses who have no legislative seats (even when they are peeresses in their own rights), jammed their places. When members of the House of Commons came pushing and jostling (by ancient ritual) to the bar of the House of Lords, several peeresses happened to raise their lorgnettes in unison, thus made it possible for one naïve correspondent to cable that "peeresses turned and glared...
...pretty Princess Sibylle Calma Maria Alicia Bathildis Feodora von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha. She seemed destined to become one day by her brilliant marriage Queen of Sweden. All Coburg was sure that as soon as he is born, the future King of Sweden will be laid, according to ancient ritual, "on Coburg soil" in the double-bottomed cradle...