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...Isotta-Fraschini, all gifts from pious admirers. If the Pope picks his favorite car this week for the 17-mile jaunt to the hills, he will clamber into the Dodge sedan, in which the back seat has been replaced with a large chair, slightly raised and overstuffed under red damask. In front of this is a small folding seat for the Pope's secretary. According to Papal Chauffeur Angelo Stoppa: "His Holiness likes speed. He orders me to drive between 40 and 45 m.p.h., and he likes it. The Pope does not speak to me very often when...
...clock. The production is being given by the Unnamed Players, and will be played in modern dress with Alistair Cooke, director of the H.D.C. fall presentation and now supervising the Hasty Pudding show, in charge of the performance. "Cymbeline" will be preceded by "Ayi No Tsuzami" (The Damask Drum), a short play attributed to Seami, the greatest of the No playwrights...
...Linen damask & Burano Point...
...broke out. (He organized and commanded a two-balloon air force for the Union Army.) A crowd of 6,000 cheered the take-off of the Jenkins-Boynton party from Manhattan's Central Park. The balloon was a gorgeous affair, the basket draped with red and gold damask, thickly carpeted, with a cushioned seat covered in green flowered satin. The cords from the bag were alternating red, white and blue, crossed by ropes of red and green. U. S. flags stuck out at all angles. Bride & groom were dressed magnificently. High above the city they signed a marriage contract...
...your issue of June 26 you mention the Feast of Corpus Christi at St. Peter's, and in speaking of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI you state: "Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella...