Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their faces gleaming from soap & water, their hair scrupulously combed, 67 flushed old men and 67 excited old women waited in the transepts of Westminster Abbey last week. The organ groaned magnificently. Down the aisle stalked a scarlet-&-gold Yeoman of the Guard bearing on his head a solid gold platter piled high with purses of scarlet and white leather. Behind the Yeoman walked King George, Queen Mary and the King's Almoner, the Very Rev. J. Armitage Robinson whose other duties include the Deanship of Wells Cathedral...
...Last Supper. Jesus of Nazareth performed the original pedilavium stripped, girded in a towel. Even the early Plantagenets kept their clothes on and no British King has washed any feet for centuries. The money, which comes from the King's privy purse, has been distributed every year by Abbey clergy. No King has taken part in the ceremony since James II died more than 200 years...
...specially minted silver coins. At the week's end the recipients had much more than their ?2 153 7d to spend. Much of the Maundy money was promptly sold to numismatists at a large premium. A few Left Wing Laborites objected vigorously to the whole ceremony. Westminster Abbey in the city of Westminster at the present time contains Westminster School, the Houses of Parliament, the Government offices, Scotland Yard and a number of elegant mansions along St. James's Park. Deserving poor are almost as rare in Westminster as in John P. Morgan's block in Manhattan...
First night's prices, $356,260 for 89 lots, so encouraged agents of the Marquess of Lothian that they considered it likely that he would send to the U. S. for sale a collection of fine furniture and paintings from his two estates, Blickling Hall, Norfolk, and Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian. The Marquess is better known to U. S. citizens as Philip Henry Kerr, lecturer and onetime private secretary to David Lloyd George. He was a member of last summer's Round Table Conferences on India. Second cousin to the Duke of Norfolk, he succeeded to his title last...
...capitals on either side of the main entrance door of the Fogg Museum are from the Abbey of Santa Maria de Alabanza near the hamlet of Labranza de Pisuerga in the partido of Cervera, province of Palencia, Spain...