Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buck House, however, the 28-year-old Premier Duke found the mind of the 42-year-old King-Emperor already made up that his Coronation procession should be the shortest possible and his Coronation ritual the simplest possible. Soon announced was an official route so short that the only way to make the publicly visible part of the Coronation any shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge...
...through West Africa with an educated Parisian Negro who was doing research on the dances of blackamoor tribes. The book was notable for its blunt and sometimes angry descriptions of the consequences of bad administration on the natives, as well as for its account of some of the extraordinary ritual dances that Gorer witnessed. It contained a few passages on native magic that suggested the author possessed a streak of mysticism that he had difficulty in communicating...
...twelve "Republicans" was balloon-eared, tight-lipped Ray Ernest, Jackson State Prison guard, reputedly a "brigadier general." With four others he was accused of lashing another WPA worker, of fatally flogging a fellow prison guard who had tried to withdraw from the Legion. While newspapers painted the complicated ritual in which a Legion neophyte was asked whether he believed in a Supreme Being, could ride, shoot, drink and lie, police announced that they had raided Ernest's Jackson home, found a metal-studded whip. Mrs. Ernest, claiming to have played Little Eva in a presentation of Uncle...
...leaves would not be too far out to obstruct rooftop views of the coronation procession. Privately King Edward told his most dear brother and counselor and the Duke of Norfolk, who is officially responsible for arranging the coronation, to do everything they possibly could to simplify the interminable ritual...
...annual Princeton poll signifying the fortunate few whom the Senior class names yearly as "most respected", "biggest grind", etc. The practice of bestowing such dubious titles upon a handful of the graduating class has become a tradition like the beer-suits and freshman skull caps; it is a ritual which time has enhanced and which offers splendid opportunities for a mass attack upon some hapless individual who can neither foresee nor alter his lot once he has been chosen "best dressed" or named, "thinks he is wittiest". These brands of favour are eagerly reprinted in the metropolitan papers; only...