Word: dom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the lacy steeple of the Stephans-dom in the centre of the parish churches in the suburbs, all the bells of Vienna bonged out in Jubilee last week. A great glittering crowd had assembled in the sweeping crescent of the Heldenplatz before the former Imperial Palace. Hemmed in by glittering buttons and braid and feathers of the entire diplomatic corps, sat enthroned three scarlet-robed Cardinals and their Brother-in-God the Papal Legate from Rome. Bands played, a choir sang Schubert's Deutsche Messe and, grave with emotion, little Chancellor Dollfuss stepped forward and laid a wreath...
Count Mass, Jr., E. R. Little, P. D. Rowan, J. D. Tew, Dom. P. Davis, A. L. Jorgenson, C. Francis Ladd, Doris Benson, John E. Bird, Barbara Evers, R. A. Benson, Jr., Reed E. Bartlett, Charles W. Perry, Sidney Gleason, 2nd, Ruth Hussey, W. A. Frances, Mary Ettling, Evelyn Hassman, T. Gordan Bingham, Jr., Dorothy Hughes, F. F. Silver, Robert Schafer, Natalie Peterson, Alber Flower, Jr., Mina Flower, Beechman, L. Fairbank, Margaret Page, Dorothea MacMillen, H. Myron, Jr., G. S. Worcester, N. Shipman, Jay Ricks, Miss J. White...
...farms' lives longer; that depression and prosperity come and go but farming goes on forever. As the Earth Turns, May choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, is no Growth of the Soil but it is a solidly conceived, pleasantly written, hopefully colored record of Yankee farm-dom...
...Dom Manoel's wife, Princess Augusta Victoria Hohenzollern, or his secretary, who were the only people in his house that afternoon, found a tube and forced it down his throat he might have lived longer. The glottis, the slit-like opening into the larynx, less than an inch long, is capable of swelling with alarming rapidity. Intubation (insertion of a tube) lets the patient breathe until the swelling has subsided. More frequently the physician will cut into the trachea through the neck and insert the tube from the outside. If laymen such as Dom Manoel's wife...
...Dom Manoel was a king for two and a half years of his 42. In his 19th year in 1908, revolutionists stormed the carriage in which he was riding with his father King Carlos and brother Crown Prince Louis Philippe, shot the King and Crown Prince to death. Manoel was crowned three months later. In 1910 a second revolution sent him scurrying to Gibraltar. Dom Manoel, who had never wanted to be a king, was quite satisfied when the republic allowed him to keep his property, valued at some $50,000,000. He led a pleasant life as the royal...