Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other bone mementos in the tomb of the Cloud warriors were "carved with a technique not surpassed by fine Chinese work on ivory," the carvings depicting events of history and details of ritual...
Before a silent House of Representatives stood Wright Patman, a pink- cheeked, curly-headed young Democratic Congressman from Texas repeating an ancient and awful parliamentary ritual. A legislative neophyte in his second term, he should, by rights, have been sitting quietly in a back row listening to his elders debate great issues. Instead, he was leaping recklessly forward to invoke the most solemn provision of the Constitution to remove from the Cabinet its most venerable member...
...playing for his eleventh championship last week. Greenleaf's dignity did not permit him to emulate his confreres who, before a match, changed their dinner coats for black silk playing jackets. He wore his evening clothes throughout the tournament, entranced spectators by the suave and cautious ritual with which he filed his cue-point, sandpapered it, chalked it, then powdered his sharp-fingered hands. Only once was Greenleaf ruffled. That was in his seventh match when he missed his favorite cube of chalk. Puzzled, he asked his opponent, Andrew Ponzi, if he had seen it anywhere...
...with their sociability and their discussions; the complex forms and ceremonies of initiation, taken over from the William and Mary chapter; the secrecy in which the meetings and laws were clothed, the use of cipher in official communications; all these are typical of the fraternities of the time. The ritual of initiation was pompous: in referring to meetings, it stated "everything transacted within this room is transacted Sub rosa, and detested is he that discloses it"; an oath had to be taken to "keep, hold & preserve all secrets that pertain to your duty"; a special fraternity "grip" was employed...
...Coronation ritual proceeded Sultana Helen made her responses with a soft Scottish burr. At last, with the Lesser (female) Crown of Johore firmly planted on her Nordic head, she rode with swart Sultan Sir Ibrahim triumphantly around Johore Bahru, received the abject homage of its groveling, grinning populace...