Word: devoutness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the death of His Imperial Majesty Yoshihito Tenno (TIME, Jan. 3) there began last week the usual sacrifices of loyal subjects in his honor. Hundreds of young girls cut off their hair and burned it ceremoniously in the temples. Stalwart youths pierced veins and painted in blood devout ideographic prayers for the Tenno.* Finally Baron Mansasuke Ikeda, lifelong companion of the Tenno, set up a portrait of the "Heavenly King" in his house near Tokyo, cried, "I followed you in life, I follow you in death," and shot himself...
They came, last week, on the anniversary of Juan Diego's impression. Like him, they were mostly shirtless, but some few were devout Roman Catholics of wealth and consequence. Due to the anticlerical laws (TIME, Feb. 22) no Roman Catholic priest officiated at the shrine. Roman Catholic laymen, armed with batons, hurried the crowds past the Blessed Virgin's image. Peons who sought to crawl to and from the shrine on all fours were made to get up and walk lest they obstruct...
...first President of China (Jan.-Feb. 1912), famed revolutionary statesman Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Cantonese Government (1917) as a rival to Peking, but died in Peking (1925) before the recent Cantonese conquest of the whole southern half of China. With Widow Sun Yat-sen a devout widow, traveled the brilliant and astute Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin. M. Borodin has been the intermediary between Moscow and Canton since before the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen. One of his few false moves was to keep the Cantonese waiting for weeks while a ceremonial coffin was being brought from Moscow...
...language of Thomas Carlyle and the tone of Ecclesiastes, for a "master man," a hero to worship and to lead. "Religion lacks its Pentecostal tongue; art lacks the Pentecostal flames of divine inspiration." Woe to the artist-one can see Mr. Cram as a boy, looking into his devout father's big illustrated family Bible-woe to the artist that fails to "serve God through the serving of them that He made in His image and redeemed in the darkness and the thunderings of Calvary." The ministry of art is God's ministry, for the redemption of human...
...bright young man who first came to the notice of readers of the New York World by filling in for Heywood Broun while the latter was vacationing. Broun's "It Seems to Me" column became for the nonce "It Seems to Me Too", and even the most devout Brounonians grudgingly admitted that this fellow Sullivan wasn't so bad. But Broun returned in due course and his bright young substitute retired to a less conspicuous page of the World, where he continued to offer his humorous wares to those who cared to seek him out. And in increasing numbers readers...