Word: vitus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal touch with Jesus went to the "sinners' bench.'' Behind him the congregation's feet stomped, hands clapped, voices cried, ''Glory, glory, glory, glory." Praying as he became the focus of mass hysteria, the man began to quiver, shake, jerk in a St. Vitus' dance. "Let him get through, oh Lord! More power, Lord! Glory! Glory!" the congregation cried. The man's arms went up. His head went back. His mouth uttered "unknown tongues" until he dropped unconscious, "slain of the Lord'' to rise later "baptized of the Holy Ghost...
...readers may be annoyed to discover that Crusader Herbert ignores U. S. English, tacitly assumes that it is a provincial monstrosity. Of U. S. slang he says "it is one part 'natural growth' and nine parts a nervous disorder. It is St. Vitus's Talk." He opens a big door, then hastily slams it, when he admits: "The step from foul American slang to valuable English idiom is sometimes very short"-then changes the subject. He further weakens his case for Royalist English by attacking the divine right of dictionaries, even the Oxford (but he bows...
...teach them to do something which any calf can do better?" Last week he had a fling at the College Entrance Examination Board, currently tinkering feverishly with its tests in an effort to please progressive teachers. "You would think," observed the old headmaster, ''that it had St. Vitus's dance...
While all was well with the Princips on St. Vitus Day the World burgeoned ominously last week with events far from peaceful...
Berlin seethed with Nazi bloodshed but on St. Vitus Day all German flags went to half mast. Quietly at Wilhelmshaven the third of Germany's famed 10,000-ton "pocket battleships," the Admiral Graf von Spee, with six nin. guns, was launched and hailed by the Fatherland's Press as "unmatched in battle power for her size." Chancellor Hitler, just before the Nazi revolt broke, inspected the great Krupp works at Esse-n. Instead of passing this off as a trivial event. Publisher Hitler's personal news-organ covered its entire front page with militant pictures from...