Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...many ties with their western neighbors as with their eastern ones. They are a very ignorant people with almost no consciousness of nationality at all. When you ask one of them to what nation he belongs, he is likely to answer 'I am a Catholic' or 'I am an Orthodox.' Among such people religion is about the best criterion of natural affiliations...
...While the eastern section of the White Russians are Orthodox, the western portion of them are strictly Catholic. These latter hear only Polish preached in their churches, and Polish is the language of the prayer books and the religious literature, which is the only thing that most of them read if they read at all. Moreover, Polish is the language of the educated people throughout the country. It is the language that everybody speaks as soon as he begins to rise in the world. In the towns of western White Russia the non-Jewish population is usually Polish, while throughout...
...there be benighted enough to notice such things), the conventional allusions to Mr. Cram, Terry and University Hall-these are the essentials of a routine Lampoon. These are here, each with a carefully introduced reference to an ouija board, a crystal, or a ghost. Quite in the orthodox fashion, the quality varies. Real humor hides between paragraphs of undiluted nonsense properly tinctured with spiritualistic jargon. Pre-eminence in the Lampoon's true field-good humored mockery of the incidents and figures in our academic daily round-is revealed in drawings and verse which, alas, leave much space for work that...