Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the ornate altar of a Buddhist temple in a Tacoma side street, Julius Goldwater, one of the 50 white Buddhist priests in the U. S., intoned: "This candi date desires ordination." Red-robed Bishop Kenju Masuyama, head of all Buddhist temples in North America, placed a kesa (stole) around the neck of yellow-robed Mrs. Pratt. Chanted she: "I take my refuge in Buddha. I take my refuge in Dharma. I take my refuge in Sangha." Thus Mrs. Pratt entered the life of Upasika Bhikum ("Utmost Perfection of Womanly Virtue"). Taking a new name, Teiun, she continued...
Hero Prince. Reich War Minister von Blomberg last week stole Austria's greatest war hero. In all German garrison towns was read a proclamation setting forth, on the 200th anniversary of the death of great Prince Eugene of Savoy, that Eugene was a Pan-German hero who had saved Germany from the "predatory greed" and "plundering, burning and murdering armies" of France's Louis...
...nearby pews. To assist the red-robed Episcopal primate in the job at hand were the young man's onetime headmaster as preacher, his younger brother as crucifer, two of his cousins as crosier-bearer and litanist. His hands trembling with emotion, Bishop Perry draped a stole about the neck of his first-born son and led the new deacon to the Cathedral altar...
Emerging briefly from retirement Bob Brookings stole the show in the first day of the Handicap Meet at the Stadium and upheld the honor of the Yard proctors by winning his heat of the 100-meter dash with ridiculous ease. In the 200-meter dash, however, time took its toll of the veteran and he was smothered by the field...
...Lady Cleone Meredith (Elissa Landi) ; her fortune-hunting fiance, Louis Chichester (Basil Sydney); her fop of a brother (Hugh Williams) and a lady who had been her fiancé's mistress. The freeing of Barty Sr., the winning of Cleone and the expo sure of the thief who stole a fortune in pearls and banknotes from Lady Cleone's grandfather is accomplished by some highly literate dramaturgy by Clemence Dane, some handsome snuff-taking by Fairbanks Jr., some capital period studies, including: 1) a bare-knuckle prizefight; 2) a Court cotillion; 3) a jailbreak; 4) a presentation...