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...Monastery of the Mountain of Light in Czestochowa, early last week, the arm of the priest who stands to the left of the doorway, dips his little broom in a can of holy water, and dexterously swishes precious spray over the pilgrims, bestowing virtue on the devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna...
Staircase Group (c. 1795), by Charles Willson Peale, an almost "modern" design, showing two figures on a winding stair. Note: "the canvas was originally framed in the woodwork of a doorway . . . [and] Washington once absentmindedly bowed to the young gentlemen represented...
...more reassuring was the Government's own ARP (Air Raids Precaution) work last week. At the Admiralty, War Office, Home Office, Works Department and Scotland Yard, men worked three eight-hour shifts. Basements were reconstructed as living quarters, electric kitchens installed, stores of food laid in. Every doorway has been gasproofed and rooms and passages have been equipped with bulkhead doors...
...South American Cardinals) were expected to reach Naples on February 28, the conclave was scheduled to begin that evening. By then, corridors and chambers near the Sistine Chapel (where the balloting takes place) would be bricked up, so that the only access to the conclave would be one doorway. Over that entrance the head of Rome's noble Chigi family would stand guard-Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, hereditary Marshal of the Holy Roman Church. The Marshal would carry in a red velvet satchel two keys to the door, open it only after consultation with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli...
...passed into private hands and fallen into neglect, the roof collapsed and the plaster began to crumble away. Fortunately, about ten years ago, the paintings were removed before they had been ruined by the weather. Two of them, a superb lion and a winged serpent, now flank the doorway of the entrance of the Cloisters, a newly opened branch of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Fogg Museum's newly acquired fresco has been transferred to a canvas and certain missing portions have been sparingly painted in. Yet, even at close range, the work unmistakably possesses the texture and rugged...