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...afternoon, 50,000 Romans and pilgrims waited. Presently from St. Peter's central doorway appeared the Pope, apparently kneeling but actually sitting at a priedieu on a platform borne by twelve husky men. Pius XI bore aloft a gem-encrusted monstrance containing the Host.* Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella. Mace-bearers, torchbearers. Noble Guards and Swiss Guards walked at his side. The crowd cheered. Then 18 cardinals and 6,000 priests and ordinaries fell into line, bearing lighted candles. The Pope...
...good thing that Dartmouth from time to time pop out into the urbane world just to see for itself how provincial this College can be. Think how many weeks it has been since a derby sat smartly on your head. Think how long it has been since you unfolded damask across your lap in sitting down to dinner. It is all very well to rusticate but it is not so fine to sink so deeply into country ways that you forget that Hanover is a very small town indeed and its customs very simple...
...butler may usually be recognized by his expression of concentrated intelligence, and is nearly always sober." Mr. Brisbane then drew a line under this sally and began anew: "Herbert [Bayard] Swope had this 'host-coat' idea long ago, wearing an evening suit of beautiful claret-colored damask. Why, no one knew. In his house there can't be any mistake about the host. And the butler had nothing to do with it, for Swope's servants are black...
...Pope's red motor car carried him, seated in his gilded, damask-covered motor throne, from the Vatican Palace, over the graveled roads of the Vatican gardens to the small, redbrick, garden-surrounded broadcasting station...
...Hempstead, L. I., one Alexander Mazzone, railroad gatekeeper, was observed beside the tracks eating his lunch of caviar off a table on which he had placed a phonograph, a damask cloth, a vase of flowers...