Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solemn ritual of the 296th Commencement began with a March of the Senior Class through the Yard to Memorial Church, where Dean Sperry conducted opening prayers. Following the service, they were joined by all other degree candidates under the direction of their several marshals. Chief Marshal R. Keith kane '22 led the march behind the University band paying tribute to the John Harvard statue before proceeding to the exercises before Memorial Church...
...Hitler Jugend. He went to school with me and once invited me up to his place. His father, who had been an officer in the German Imperial Navy, had transformed the best room of the apartment into a replica of a U-boat. Each evening a sacred ritual took place. The father would assemble the whole family to "sink Englishmen." Through a circular hole (all that was left of the window) he would push a kind of telescope; bells rang, red and green lights flashed, and everybody roared commands through megaphones. When it was over and three English cruisers were...
Next morning he was up early, skipped his usual ritual of a morning walk because of chilling rain. His old Army barber, Frank Spina, dropped by to give him a haircut, reported that the presidential locks had scarcely thinned since 1917. Just before noon Harry Truman got the news he had come for. Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the Presidential physician, reported that old Mrs. Truman would be sitting up by the end of the month, might even be able to walk again...
...purists and people who compare everything with "Oklahoma!"--the show has faults, including a weak finale, a dreary Indian ritual dance, and an occasional monotony in the total effect of the score. For connoisseurs of show music the best songs are "New England in the Autumn," a gay number by John Knowles, John Lemmon, and William Scudder, and "If He Ain't Got a Woman," a bluesy tune by Courtney Crandall and Sendder. For mothers and sisters of Pudding members Julian Hatton, Jr., as a beautiful Priscilla and Frederick Lamont, Jr., as somebody funny called Billington stand...
...appeaser in those days; besides, there are few on Andros, even today, who have actually seen a chickcharney (first cousin to a leprechaun). Some time ago a native awoke in a thicket at sunrise, after a rum-soaked night, and saw them by the thousands at their morning ritual-carrying snakes to hundreds of tiny cauldrons on the beach, anointing their supple bodies with snake oil, dressing themselves each with an almond leaf in front and an almond leaf behind, and swinging off through the trees like tiny Tarzans to hunt game with bows & arrows...