Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure after an appendectomy; in Rome. His death leaves 28 Italian, 29 non-Italian Cardinals. He was born in London where his father (later to be Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See) was attached to the Spanish Legation. On his Protestant mother's side he was of English descent, but, true son of his father, he resembled a handsome Spanish Don. He was educated in England and Rome. His scholarship, piety and social suavity brought him rapid ecclesiastical preferment. He spoke and wrote Latin, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. Aged 38, he was appointed by Pius X Papal Secretary...
...brought in. Then follows a full day, or perhaps two days, indoors, putting the treasures into press and starting their proper drying, before another active day of field work can be undertaken. Often enough, after stretching every muscle and testing every nerve in the ticklish ascent and descent of successive cliffs, we reach home with our knee-joints so lame and stiff that no one utters a single word of complaint at the enforced inactivity of the succeeding...