Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byzantine structure near the western end of Victoria Street, not to be confused with Gothic, Protestant Westminster Abbey at the eastern...
...lowering a pilot in a steel basket on 1,000 feet or more of cable through a cloud bank, with binoculars and telephone to give bearings, observe bomb damage. He says the Kaiser ordered him to avoid hitting King Albert of Belgium, King George of England, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral or London's residential districts. He has commanded almost 100 dirigibles. For three years (1925-27), he worked for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, learned English, decided to take out U. S. citizenship papers, changed his mind temporarily. He will settle, he thinks, wherever manufacture...
...most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in gold embroidered cape, croisier in hand, stood before the altar of Westminster Abbey. Heavy drums of the guards brigade rolled thunderously. Cried the Archbishop...
Followed a fanfare of trumpets. These military sounds in the House of God prefaced a great thanksgiving service for the King's recovery. Present in the Abbey were King George and Queen Mary, members of the royal family, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, members of the Diplomatic Corps and as many of the people of London as could crowd inside the doors. At the same time thanksgiving services were held in all other churches throughout the Empire...
...Once the Champagne was a wine-growing land. Red and white wines grew there, wines of charming tint. . . . But when in 1670 the sinister cellarer of the Abbey of Hautvilliers, Dom Perignon, as baneful a man as the monk Schwartz, inventor of gunpowder, created explosive wine and fiendishly invented the skullduggery by which the honest wines of Champagne became the favorite drink of debauchees, at one blow he ruined the honor of his country and made it prosperous...