Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Regard for the feeling of the dead is, like the belief in relies or the desire to visit the tombs of departed greatness, a survival of primitive hero worship. And everybody is anxious about the ultimate disposal of his own corpse. Yet Diogenes, reports Cicero, ordered his to be thrown out unburied. "To the birds and the beasts!" cried his shocked friends. "Not at all," was the answer, "but-lay a stick beside me so that I can drive them off". "How can you, since you will not feel them?" "Well, if I do not feel them, what will...
Bulgaria has a law securing religious freedom and immunity of worship to all religious sects. The Dunovisti make up a sect of 15,000 souls. For the last 21 years these Bulgarians, under the leadership of Peter Dunoff, a graduate of Boston University, have been holding annual conventions in the Tirnova district of Bulgaria. This year the meeting of the Dunovisti was forbidden. A delegation of three Dunovisti called on M. Russef, Bulgaria's Minister of the Interior, cited the law of Bulgaria concerning religious freedom, asked that the ruling of the district governor be set aside, as opposed...
...Steel Corporation: "My championing of the necessity of a twelve-hour day in the steel industry brought another enemy upon me -Solomon Goldberg, of Manhattan. He said I was trying to destroy the religion of men by compelling them to work twelve hours a day so that they cannot worship their God. He exclaimed: ' Surely Gary is ungodly, but have not the pious always vanquished the sinners...
Tentative plans also indicate the production of The Goat Song, a drama of Pan-worship, by Franz Werfel; Fata Morgana, by Ernst Vajda; and a second American play...
...those of Jane Austen and of Isaak Walton. The sainted savior of France has been placed in an English Church, with minor figures of English literature and history. But, although at first this act might seem incongruous, it is merely a single manifestation of what Carlyle has called "hero-worship". For the memory of the great belongs not to one nation solely, but to all humanity...