Word: cortes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the Royal cortège lacked in grandeur was more than made up by pomp displayed by the Supreme Pontiff. At the technical frontier of the minuscule Vatican State the eight motor cars stopped. There, brilliant in the warm December sunshine stood Commendatore Serafini, Governor of Vatican City; Prince Massimo, Papal Postmaster General, gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform...
...strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...
...with it is the premise that athletics are overemphasized. This, too, however, is one of the oldest of theories. In the seventh century B.C., Xenophanes, a philosopher who expressed his theorics in verse, deplored the overappreciation of the Olympic heroes and the lack of recognition for wisdom of the cort he boasted...
LITTLE SPITFIRE (Cort, Dearborn Street...
Hookworm disease in China among silk workers and rice farmers comes from going barefooted under mulberry trees in the fields where the ground is infected. . When the coolies learn to wear shoes, it will be eliminated.-Dr. W. W. Cort, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene...