Word: altare
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...gave Augustine a church at Canterbury, then a seaport. Thomas Becket (1162-70), warrior-bishop, first helped Henry II subordinate Church to State. But when he became Archbishop of Canterbury he fought for Church against State. Courtiers foully murdered and mangled him on the very steps of his altar and Henry II did an abject penance. Stephen Langton (1207-22) persuaded Pope Innocent III to excommunicate King John for combating Church administration; he stirred the English barons to demand the Magna Carta of John; later (after John's death) he supported the crown against the nobles. Thomas Cranmer...
...much education contribute to its civic culture; civic cleanliness is upheld by the barbers and laundrymen, who set aside one week of each year to ply their trade for the city's children, free of charge. In 1927, the barbers offered up 4,000 free haircuts on the altar of municipal tidiness...
...cunningly carved oak chair stalls the English Gothic Style attained its richest and most intricate perfection. The resplendent scene was one to quicken blase hearts, as each Knight mounted to his carved niche, grasped his sword by the blade, and extended its upraised hilt toward the High Altar...
Dwarfed only by the Divine Presence, stood His Majesty, George V. King and Emperor, with two sturdy pages to support his long crimson and white train. At one side of the Altar sat Her Majesty, Mary, Queen and Empress, clad in a long, shimmering cloak of gold tissue with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve...
...small way, she settles down to give a waiting world the low down on Dorothy, the tart brunette who sang bass in the earlier story. She traces Dorothy's education from her childhood in a carnival company to New York and the Follies and eventually to the altar (twice...