Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abracadabra. In Rio de Janeiro, Dona Rosa met an old friend she had not seen in five years, gave her the ritual hug (abraco&) of Rio residents, broke three of her ribs...
Thus last week Hollywood's Post No. 43, which observes the Legion lodge ritual down to the last wave of the flag, sponsored a new Legion post (No. 591) composed entirely of World War II veterans.* Post 43, the country's richest (famed members: Adolphe Menjou, Conrad Nagel) footed all bills, gave Post 591 the use of its building. The Legion, outdistanced at the start by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the drive for World War II members (TIME, Oct. 4), had now begun to sign them up in earnest...
...drive out pulque the Government must conquer a superstition, smash a major industry. The superstition dates centuries before Cortés. This fall as in hundreds of years past, many a peon still trudged miles up into the mountains to participate in a bibulous ritual on the site where Ome Tochtli's idol once stood. As an industry, pulque employes a million and a half persons, covers a million acres of land...
Into Mackinac Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
...admiral complaining about inadequate preparation in mathematics. . . . The public is now Essentialist-minded. [Its] attitude . . . has been largely formulated in the fiery furnace of war. . . . Now there is the danger that the public will swing too far. . . Progressive education . . . proclaimed that traditional education had become a ritual ... a mold into which the enthusiasm and idealism of youth were poured with unfortunate results...