Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person than Allan Nevins, last year's Pulitzer Prize winner (Grover Cleveland}. Clients and depositors, many of them lineal descendants of original customers, sent armfuls of flowers. To become 17th president of Bank of New York John C. Traphagen went through the bank's usual ritual. A Chase National vice president, he was first nominated by the trustees for the requisite period of three weeks. After he was made a trustee, his fellow trustees solemnly elected him president in 1931. The stockholders have no voice in elections and the trustees are a self-perpetuating body. Today under...
...Yard police have long had as one of their sacred duties the job of preserving the peace and security of the Harvard Yard and its inmates, whose safety and quiet are guaranteed by the daily ritual of the closing of the gates at sundown. Every evening at six o'clock sharp the clang of the iron protals on Massachusetts Avenue cuts off Virtually all approach to the buildings from that flank except from the vicinity of Boylston Hall...
...Halls may sleep undisturbed by the tramp of feet in the archways beneath. The purpose of keeping the gate directly behind the library firmly chained and bolted is harder to fathom. It is possible that it is one of the things that is because it has always been. The ritual of the gab has always been. The ritual of the gates might be modified along with that of the morning bell and with considerably less of the hubbub which accompanied that move. One more gate could surely be sacrificed to encourage more to "enter and grow in wisdom...
...three congregations for them, Catholic, Episcopal and Jewish. Once a week Jews attend services supervised by Mrs. Tanya Nash, widow of a rabbi, who provides guest rabbis and interpreters. Because deaf persons cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are in charge of a kindly, white-haired Jesuit named Rev. Michael A. Purtell. Father Purtell holds weekly services in the three cities, runs a newspaper called...
...every Sunday at St. Mark's Methodist Church. In Dallas deaf-mutes meet weekly in the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Clara E. Hemphill is the leading sign language teacher of that city. Her great concern is to persuade Episcopalians to provide mute services because she believes the austere ritual of that church is especially beautiful in sign language...