Word: damask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pomp of pontifical elegance, ageless, sombre, and fiercely-burning- the Bishops. Each was vested in a magnificent cope secured with a jewel-crusted clasp and held open, on the right and left, by two deacons of honor. Each Bishop wore a mitre. The celebrant passed in a rich red damask chasuble, followed by a deacon and a subdeacon in dalmatic and tunic. Last of all came the bishop of the diocese, the Right Reverend Chauncey B. Brewster, preceded by cross and candles and by his chaplain bearing the golden pastoral staff, emblem of his tenure. They proceeded between the lines...
...HOWARD OF NEBRASKA (who afterwards voted in favor of the bill) : "To vote for this bill will be to give the recognition of legitimacy to a legislative bastard, conceived in the fertile brain of a professional profiteering patriot, and accouched on a damask divan in the gold room in the house of Morgan & Co., attended by a galaxy of accoucheurs appointed by Treasury Secretary Mellon and approved by the President of the United States...