Word: amethyst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
Fifty Manhattan Roman Catholics climbed about a United Fruit steamer in New York Harbor last week and kissed an amethyst ring. It was on the thick powerful finger* of a medium-sized cask of a man, whom two Mexican "very, very courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits...
...lump of fused quartz, clear as water, turned purple; a lump of feldspar glowed blue, amber, ruby, amethyst, with patches of brilliant green, successively; a lump of limestone burned angry orange. After exposure to the rays, these minerals looked searing hot but were not. Their fluorescence was without rise in temperature and in some cases persisted for hours after the exposure (as displaced electrons worked slowly back to their places in the atoms). The application of heat and cold (liquid air) altered the speed and intensity of these effects. Diamonds were only temporarily affected by exposure...
...nave; hundreds of wealthy laymen were packed shoulder to shoulder in those stalls not reserved for the ordained. Already Dr. Stires had received a magnificent Bible from Mrs. George Hardwick, his 80-year old mother-in-law; already 80 of his admiring colleagues had presented him with an amethyst ring; already the great procession -so long that the processional hymn was sung through four times -had followed the crucifer up the aisle, while outside on Fifth Ave. motor horns blared interrogatively, and ladies on their way out to luncheon found their cars blocked by a crowd of the curious...
...procession marched into Liberty Hall, which was formerly a garage. First came a beadle, then an archdeacon, then a priest in red biretta, then Bishop McGuire of Africa in a purple cape and mitre of gold cloth, carrying a crook and wearing his bishop's ring of amethyst over a pair of white gloves. At the rear came Marcus Garvey in a feathered hat and George O. Marke, Royal Potentate, who came from Sierra Leone for the ceremony...