Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which there is surely no need to go. Tap Day is one with Freshman fraternities and fence rushes. According to a letter in the "Daily News" it is "obsolete as the antimacassar, the wall motto and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett." In a word, "Tap Day" and the ritual of secrecy appears in the light of the new maturity childish, sophomoric; and ridiculous...
...clerk concluded, Floor Leader Tilson led a splattering of Republican applause. Cries of "Vote! Vote!'' tilled the air. Speaker Longworth repeated the ancient ritual: "The question is. will the House on reconsideration agree to pass the bill, the objections of the President to the contrary not with-standing...
Annie Wood Besant (rhymes with either incessant or pleasant) is an old woman (83) popularly associated with occult ritual and mystic robes. She is still president of the Theosophical Society, but perhaps you didn't realize she was once a parson's wife, an atheist, a Socialist, a beautiful spellbinder...
...judge, a Methodist Episcopalian, did not know the Protestant Episcopal ritual. †Last week he said lie was about to become a father, for the first time in his 17 years of orthodox marriage. ** His latest article is appearing in College Humor...
...Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand were made freemen of the City of London last week, proclaimed to be "men of good name and fame." Cried City Chamberlain Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollack, according to ancient ritual...