Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth & Philip would have a wedding with all the trimmings, after all. The public had shouted down all suggestions of an "austerity" affair. The ceremony would be held in Westminster Abbey, a Government spokesman said, probably in October. But it was "unlikely that . . . peers will be required to wear all their robes. . . . The moths have been in them...
...Westminster Abbey has become a famous war poem...
...Princess should . be married in rationed austerity or regal state ("Life is too drab," it warned, "to pass up this chance for having fun"), the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, called a committee to arrange for an October wedding in Westminster Abbey, complete with open landaus, guards and 500 guests...
...readers know French Novelist Roger Vercel for his Tides of Mont St.-Michel, a fictional Cook's Tour of the famed medieval island abbey off Brittany. Less ambitious but just as colorful is the latest Vercel novel published in the U.S.-the story of a rich, gone-to-seed Breton family who live at Plangomeur, a mansion not far from Mont St.-Michel...
Immediately after the destruction of the abbey, a group of U.S. sponsors had organized as the Friends of Monte Cassino. They included Swarthmore's ex-President Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Harvard's classicist Professor E. K. Rand, Princeton's medievalist Dr. E. A. Lowe (who had studied at Monte Cassino) and Morgan Librarian Dr. Belle da Costa Greene. They had issued a statement, conveying "to the Abbot and monks of Monte Cassino, now in exile, the expression of our sorrow and sympathy in this hour of tragedy and trial. We . . . ardently wish to contribute our mite to hasten...