Word: altare
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...thousands of Roman Catholic Churches even in many where the roster of the saints is no more than hinted at by half a dozen effigies. Last week in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, Patrick Cardinal Hayes blessed a new altar for La Petite Fleur, St. Thérèse. The altar had been presented by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady; it was made of pure white Carrara marble. Above the altar was a marble statue of the little Saint. The altar is surrounded by a Florentine framework of marble chiseled as fine as lace. Five hundred people...
...Alfred Vincent Kidder of the Carnegie Institution watched amazed as Earl Morris, their associate on the expedition, scraped away the filth that for centuries had hidden a beautiful mosaic disc containing several hundred pieces of polished turquoise. It had been lying under the carved and painted Mayan altar discovered two years ago and is the "most artistic and elaborate of all known relics of Mayan civilization...
...which was taken up in preparing the men for the complete ceremonies and arranging costumes and make up, Coach Horween, wearing a conventionalized football costume of green tulle, danced lightly from the locker rooms and took up a position in the center of the stadium field before an impromptu altar of old sweat shirts, piled there for the occasion. With arms raised in the direction of the gas plant he invoked the Goddess Mazuma, Patronesses of Football, with the words, "I am the spirit of good football...
...closely followed by Captain A. E. French '29, swathed in delicate nile green with an under robe of pink. Captain French, swinging his arms like the wings of a bird, ran lightly forward on his toes. As he circled the altar he chanted "Spring, Spring, Spring. I am the Spirit of Spring." The line candidates as a chorus then marched in under the direction of their vigilant tutors and a brief dance by a pony chorus of the kicking squad followed...
...sensitive feelings of the artist are often given a cruel blow by the jibes of an unsympathetic critic. Having delivered himself upon the high altar of his art, to say nothing of the lucrative desk of defiled Mammon, the minor playright shudders at the crudity of those to whom it is not given to understand the scope of greatness. That criticism has constructive as well as destructive powers is forgotten by the mangled remains of budding genius forgotten also that there are standards which must be realized, a public that must be informed and protected...