Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maundy Thursday Pius XI was to join his Court & Cardinals in a two-hour service in the Sistine and Pauline chapels, culminating when a consecrated Host, in a priceless ancient chalice of rock crystal studded with precious stones and etched with 13 scenes of the Passion of Our Lord, is placed on Solemn Exposition. On Good Friday, day of mourning, the Pope would neither wear his episcopal ring nor bless those who worshipped with him. In solemn procession he would return to the Pauline chapel, then bear the Host back to the Sistine chapel for the Mass of the Presanctified...
Proudest boast of Crystal City, Tex. (pop. 6,609) is spinach. Last week, as part of the State's centennial celebration, Crystal City climaxed its pageant depicting "Texas under Six Flags" by ceremoniously enthroning its dark, pert Virginia Speedy, proclaiming her Queen of Spinach. Claiming to be roughage capital of the world, Crystal City last fortnight shipped 206 carloads of spinach, a record for the season...
...vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television passed a gruesome mile stone in Crystal Palace when a technician made some adjustments, fumbled, was electrocuted - television's first victim...
...names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius, Lucifer, Strident, Chorister, Lark, Cherokee, Hurricane, Phoebe, Fanciful, Juno, Linda." Three of Music's puppies, the Cap'n happily named "Do, Re, and Mi." The author evinces an admirable and affectionate knowledge of hounds and fox-hunting...
...Hurja's value to the Party consisted chiefly in keeping well out of the spotlight, leaving the speech-making to professional leather-lungs. Practically unknown to the public at large, he went home to Crystal Falls to vote in the 1934 election. A local paper sent a reporter to interview him. Although that region had always elected a Republican to Congress, Mr. Hurja told the reporter that the Democratic candidate would be elected by a majority of about 3,460 votes. His prediction was published under the headline "The Crystal Gazer from Crystal Falls." The Democratic majority...