Word: cartwheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, in public, the Pope would bestow upon the new cardinals their big, cartwheel-shaped red beaver hats, with 15 tassels, which each would hang in the sanctuary of his cathedral. They would kiss the papal slippers, hand and cheek, would be embraced in turn by their fellow Princes of the Church. Then, once more in secret, the Pope would present rings, perform the ceremony of "opening" and "closing" the cardinals' mouths, symbolizing the weighty matters which they were to hear and keep secret...
...darkness. It's when young boys go shouting up the street a older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press, when the man in G-32 borrows a car and goes to Wellesley, when the debutante reads poetry, when the moon is a soft golden cartwheel, and every breeze a zephyr. It's when every man is sick of four walls and ceiling; the time when the last Victorian wrote that "man he must go with a woman which women cannot understand," and Tennyson asked, "Ah, why should life all labor be, why should we only...