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...building stood adjacent to a mosque. Local Moslems took council. Were shadowy Christian pie-throwers to shuffle oversize feet, thumb noses, within nine paces of the shrine of Allah? Were milk-faced movie harlots to pervert the yearnings of Mohammedans for the swart-skinned houris of Paradise...
Estimates placed the expected attendance at 30,000,000 visitors before the exhibition closes on December first. An advance guard of the many conventions expected appeared last week, when members of 25 Temples of the Mystic Shrine hove to in the lee of many a side-show booth...
There are a great many delightful Babbitts who are working toward that poorer success which eventuates in a finer sense of values in the next generation. If the Kiwanis and the Mystic Shrine have a certain cheapness, the Mercury has cheapness of another kind. The difference is one of kind not of quality or quantity. So he who smiles at the advertisement which uses Mr. Babbitt as its motif must remember that really that gentleman is not much nearer cultural damnation than the readers of the jade journal of the eccentric reputation...
...would not be so foolish as to quarrel. Thus, it is known that one "tomb" is furnished in the acme of masculine comfort, all its furniture being heavily upholstered in black leather; that over a bathtub hangs a portrait in oils of Napoleon; that each "tomb" has its windowless "shrine" or ceremonial chamber where the most unmentionable rites are performed; that the central motive of each brotherhood is mutual fealty and assistance in time of need, and the maintenance of a code of ideals, emotional if not spiritual, gentlemanly if not militantly "moral...
...Eucharistic miracles), Angouleme (where French law was invoked to block the now regular procession of the Blessed Sacrament), Rome, Metz (where the Germans suspended the law of 1870 to permit the procession), London.** The XXI Eucharistic Congress was held in 1910 at Montreal close to the faith-healing shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre. This was a stupendous meeting of 750,000 pilgrims. But it was too far from the great centres of U. S. Catholicism to spread the full effects of its potentialities...