Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans have Onward Christian Soldiers for their campaign song, as Mr. Fort says [TIME, July 9], I shall lose my last vestige of hesitancy and vote against Herbert Hoover the Quaker and for Governor Smith the Roman Catholic. Perhaps in the Quaker Church, with its lack of ritual, there is inculcated a disdain for the ritual of others. Brought up in the worship of silence, Mr. Hoover will not mind making a fine old hymn of our fathers into a catch-tune of the hustings. I have been a Republican, if that is what it is to vote for Taft...
...total contrast stands the Japanese Geisha, neat, skilled in traditional songs, graceful in age-old dances and minutely educated in a polite ritual which by no means always ends in nimble leaping. The Geishas are invariably clean, frequently devout, and have in Japan nothing to be ashamed...
...woodsman, mourns his tomahawked mother. He rescues the beautiful maiden Toinette. With their faithful dog, they escape the Mohawks only to be captured by bloody Senecas. Toinette's beauty subtly prevails upon the chief to spare their lives, and for months they live according to Redman's ritual in Chenufsio, Hidden Town. A priest happens along to join the white lovers in respectable matrimony, whereupon sudden lurid tragedy separates them for dreary years. But at last the dog unites Jeems with his wife and unsuspected child...
Acclaim. The Commons, warming to a ceremony which would last for many hours, elected by acclaim as Speaker onetime Queen's Page Fitzroy, now a grizzled War veteran of 58, wounded at Ypres and Klein Zillebecke. He, with a coy modesty demanded by ritual, first demurred at the too-great honor, and then submitted himself to what is known as the Superior Judgment of the House...
Arthur Wellesley Peel (1884-95), youngest son of the great Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. Naughtiest was Charles Shaw Lefevre (1841-57) who delighted to cite precedents which did not exist, and would solemnly intone, according to ritual, that his most outrageous decisions were justified by "the well known practice of the House...