Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dumb Show. In the great dark vault of a cathedral on the Rhine stands a wonder-working image of the Virgin. A thousand candle flames flicker, their brilliance reflected in the gorgeous windows, in the golden vessels of the holy service. Worshippers come in throngs to pray, pale-faced nuns do their devotions and priests perform the sacred ritual under a mantle of incense and church music...
...these holy precincts is a nun. The way of the spirit is no longer attractive to her and she sets her feet in the ways of the world, shedding her sacred garments and going forth with a gay knight. Then does the Blessed Virgin descend from her high place, don the robes of the nun and take the nun's place in the convent. Then the people weep and cry out, for their sacred image has been lost...
...throws the noxious theories of so-called Liberalism upon the rubbish heap. . . . The truth, manifest henceforth to all whose eyes are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps tired of liberty. They have had an orgy of it. Liberty today is no longer the chaste and severe virgin for whom fought and died the generations of the first half of the past century. For the youths of today, intrepid, eager, stern, who envisage the dawn of a new era, there are other words which exercise a more potent fascination: Order, Hierarchy, Discipline...
...Noyers boomed: "That is a frightful lie!" The other male defendant, one Henri Froger, was called: "The Abbé afflicted me likewise with shameful diseases. . . . We did not mean to kill him but only to defend our Sainted Mother Marie, whose statue of the Blessed Virgin now weeps* night and day. . . . We await such punishment as may be meted out to us as martyrs. We have only done our duty." Mme. Robert, who had declared earlier that she was the last to flog the Abbé des Noyers before he swooned, opened her testimony with a prayer. Said...
...even mentions who his parents were. The matter always has been shrouded deep in mystery: no wonder Lampy hesitates to talk about first causes. Lampy's simple statement that a note somebody passed in classroom brought him forth, is even more at odds with nature than a virgin birth. Therefore, the CRIMSON, who remembers well the scandal incident to Lampy's birth, is loath to let the matter pass without revealing what was known and what suspected at the time...