Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sisler, now a radio sports announcer and High Commissioner of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress, took his place in the Cooperstown Shrine, with the greatest landslide of votes in the history of balloting...
...Honorable Girdle Parent" (equivalent of godfather), presented the girdle, a silk belt twelve feet long. Surrounded by the Empress and her court ladies, elaborately dressed in ancient, figured costumes, the Emperor saw Grand Master of Rituals of the Imperial Household Prince Kimitern Sanjo place the belt before the Imperial shrine and inform the Imperial ancestors of the coming event. Then, with the assistance of her ladies, it was wrapped around the plump little Empress. The child, seventh conceived by the Empress, is expected in mid-February...
When the Priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower justifies the present German persecution with the theory that Jewish oppression "has only followed after the Christians were first persecuted"; when he bursts forth in unreasoning attacks upon "communists" and "money changers";--then he is violating all that either the Catholic Church or American democracy have stood for. Tolerance today has become of paramount importance, and both church and state must make sure of its preservation and strengthening...
Solemnest of man's buildings, the mausoleum gets its name from the great tomb of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus (c. 353 B.C.). The favorite mausoleum of a generation ago resembled a Greek shrine; today's favorite more appropriately resembles a Frigidaire. But last week near Wilmington, Del., a family noted for its independence was about ready to move the remains of the late Alfred Irénée du Pont into a tomb of quite original design and princely size. One of the largest concrete and granite towers in the world, 210 feet high, with an eventual...
...Swithin, a Bishop of Winchester who died July 2, 862, was moved to a shrine in 971 on July 15, He had asked to be buried "exposed to passing feet and rain falling from...