Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fiftten-minute service in the University Memorial Chapel, conducted by the Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers...
Italian King Vittorio Emanuele, who was the Senior Foreign Knight of the Garter and personally stands high in the regard of the British Royal Family, was gazetted out last week with utmost respect. The stall reserved for the Italian King in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, will merely remain vacant, instead of being assigned to some other Knight of the Garter. The knightly banner of the House of Savoy was not destroyed, but placed in the same storage vault which holds that of Kaiser Wilhelm...
Last week Miss Corio journeyed to Guilford, Conn, to play Princess Kalima in the Chapel Playhouse, which used to serve as a community church. To the dismay of her audience, including many Harvard boys who write her love letters, she refused to do her strip. Said she austerely: "In Connecticut the theatre is art." She managed to pack them in at Guilford nevertheless. Relatively overdressed at the curtain, Miss Corio felt like a real dramatic star...
Determined to get their $20 worth, the students labored hard and soberly. Sole disrupting note to younger bankers was having to watch still younger Chapel Hill bucks squiring their coeds toward the nearby hills for afternoon strolls...
...them away in case their excitement led to violence. As night fell the city's lights failed to wink on. The Vatican was blacked out too, lest its neutral and holy illumination guide airborne enemies on a raid. Inside, disheartened Pius XII knelt for an hour in his chapel in prayer. British diplomats would be evacuated by warship to Albania, thence could make their way into still neutral Greece, it was said. The Simplon-Orient Express had, of course, stopped running...