Word: chapelful
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...even drink coffee, just milk." The old needle marks were from giving blood, she said, and the fresh ones were "a put-up job." Said a Fordham official: "Young Thorne was a fine athlete, a good student and deeply religious. He served Mass every morning in the school chapel. We would know it here, I assure you, if he had been a drinker or dope user...
...ancient insignia of the Order: the golden collar, the "great George," the "lesser George," the Star and the Garter itself, a band of dark blue edged with gold and embroidered with the famed admonition of Edward III, "Honisoit qui mal y pense."-Later, in St. George's Chapel, Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Order, read aloud the new knight's name and style ("Sir"), and he was led to a stall hung with the lion rampant of the Churchills...
...remarried, Chagall has been living for the past four years in Vence on the French Riviera. There he works all day, "even to midnight if my wife lets me," tries his hand at pottery, is considering an offer to decorate a iyth century chapel in Vence -a job he estimates might take ten years. Next year a Paris publishing house will put out a new Bible illustrated with 106 Chagall etchings...
Speaking at the two groups' annual joint luncheon in the Harkness Quadrangle, Taylor said that "somewhere on every campus half way between the chapel and cyclotron there must be a laboratory of the humanities in which, as in the college library, are preserved the immutable judgments of the past and of the present...
Presumably the statue was hidden to save it from the anti-Papists in Henry VIII's time. The Mercers' chapel was in trouble with reformers as early as 1535 because of windows showing King Henry II doing penance for the murder of Thomas à Becket in 1170. To save the statue from the fate of the windows, which were destroyed, somebody hid it underground, thus preserved its Renaissance beauty for the 20th century. Eventually, it will be restored to the rebuilt Mercers' chapel, long since a place of worship for the Church of England...