Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas went on as usual. In the east end of the second-floor corridor stood the small family tree, decorated with ornaments handed down via attic trunk from one Christmas to the next. And, as in the past, the President's plans called for the familiar, pleasant ritual of the season-the wishing of Merry Christmas to the members of his office staff, the scene in which the President and his wife receive the members of the White House staff and their children, the lighting of the Christmas tree outside the White House on Christmas Eve, the brief radio...
Aside from willingness to contribute, prime requisite for F. o. B. membership is to be "a fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse than a cross-eyed toad with athlete's foot"). A Whiff becomes a Puff when he pays his first month's levy. A Puff becomes a Gust when, after his entry, 1,000 planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When...
Inside those doors the ten club owners of the National League were meeting for their annual ritual known as the draft. The draft is something the league's bigwigs thought up to prevent the richer clubs from snatching the best college talent. Each club in turn picks, one at a time, 20 college footballers of the graduating class. The club that finished last in the league picks first, the club that finished first picks last. (Whether the club will get the player it picks is another matter; none of the players on the list can be invited to turn...
...richly indecent as in Measure for Measure, swift and slapstick as in The Taming of the Shrew. It can also be very mild, very mannered-as in Twelfth Night. The Guild production of the play is exquisite, but the net effect is that of a high ritual of antique jokes...
...regulations were adopted in response to last year's led by the Daily Princetonian, undergraduate paper, against "false standards of social stratification" and "hush-hush ritual...