Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ritual...
...ceremony was a simple one. A truck moved the two 5,000-lb. sarcophagi across the Marion cemetery where they had rested temporarily, President Harding's since 1923, Mrs. Harding's since 1926. Baptist ritual was read. Then guardsmen of the Tenth Infantry took their posts and the Marionites went home, again full of love and admiration for the jovial, handsome man whom today's young men and women of Marion can remember as a fond patter of heads and chucker of chins when he was Marion's leading citizen, then Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, then a U. S. Senator...
...Stevenson Wright of Cleveland for his portrait, the daughter of another President called at the White House-Miss Aleccia Elias Calles of Mexico City, with two friends.* Young Miss Calles, dark and dashing, was bubbling with "the wonderful news" and wanted to see President Coolidge at once. Unfortunately, diplomatic ritual prevented. There was no one present to introduce her properly. Secretary Everett Sanders was sorry, but had Major Domo John Hoover show the ladies through the White House...
Idiosyncracies. This lack of theocratic organization has permitted many idiosyncracies to develop in Protestant Episcopal services. A priest, if his parishioners tolerate his fancies, may add little gestures to his services, may modify the presentation of his ritual. This congregation may sit during certain prayers; that one may stand. This one may read aloud; that one may read silently. To this congregation the Holy Communion may be merely a symbolic ceremony, to that one a sacrament suffused with almost Roman Catholic mysticism. The wine and unleavened bread used during the Holy Communion to one congregation will represent Blood & Body only...
Jungle Gods is one more travel picture (this time African and made by a Captain von Hoffman) in which savages display smirking artificialities much like those so constantly practiced by semi-civilized migrates to the cinema lots of Southern California. As they go through the motions of tribal ritual-king-crowning, lion-hunting, getting married, they manage not to fall into the anticipated postures of improper ingratiation. But they are always ready to roll their eyeballs, with evident satisfaction, at the camera man, thus detracting from the illusion that their curious behaviour is entirely unaffected...