Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dutch Westminster Abbey, where are buried former rulers of Holland...
...Born 1862 at Ghent of pious Roman Catholic parents who educated him in the Law. However, his love of silence and "poor elocution" soon induced him to abandon that career. For many a year he lived and wrote in the ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Wandville, Normandy. Except for "an original look expressing his inner field of serene vision," he is in appearance a prosperous, healthy burgher of Ghent. Tall, thickset, he boxes, cycles, shoots, rows. He has been variously called "the Edison of the immaterial world" and "the Belgian Shakespeare...
...masterless man in English politics. Once he was Conservative, but he became a Liberal 20 years ago because of Chamberlain's free trade program; he was a Liberal until this year, when he decided to run for Parliament on a Conservative platform. He wanted to stand in the Abbey Division of Westminster. The Conservative caucus said: "First you must let us be your master; consent to that and you must run for office only when and where we choose." "Winnie," who had just been defeated in the December election on a Liberal ticket, said "No." He wanted...
...Wilson's desire that the War President be buried as a private citizen and that his final resting place should be in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Washington. The Cathedral, to be completed five years hence, thus begins to be an American "Westminster Abbey...
...procession was headed by the Duke of York and the occasion was the installation of the Unknown Soldier as Grand Master of the Order. The ceremony was highly impressive. On entering the Abbey the Order was met by the clergy and choir, all dressed in medieval habits, and they and some of the Order proceeded up che main aisle to the high altar where the Pro-Grand Master received an offering of gold from the Almoner and presented it to the Dean, who dedicated it. Then sounded a joyous fanfare of trumpets and the procession re-formed and wound...