Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn ministrations reserved, by centuries of tradition, for the last moments of a Pope. To Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, Grand Penitentiary of the Holy Roman Church, Pius XI, propped up by pillows, whispered his confession, received absolution for his sins. Then attendants washed the Pope's face, hands and feet for their anointing in the last rite: extreme unction. The Monsignor Sacristan, Alfonso de Romanis, parish priest of the Vatican, sprinkled the still room and its grave company with holy water. "Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, 0 Lord, and I shall be cleansed...
...chapters, some of which are little essays on autocracy, some of which are so rhetorical that they scan even in translation, The Age of the Fish warns that the world is floating into cold times in which "the souls of men, my friend, will become as rigid as the face of a fish." Its narrator is a young teacher, who learns that under the State he must criticize his pupils' essays not for saying that Negroes are animals or that war is glorious, but only for having an untidy left margin or the word colonies mis spelled. At military...
...author of this how-dy-do was one of the founders of the brash, short-lived Yale Harkness Hoot; at 21 wrote Challenge to Defeat, slapping the face of depression pessimists. In Hannibal Hooker, his first novel, he breezes past all moral and religious stop-signs. He is, in brief, a daring young man, and his agility on literary trapezes is breathtaking. But after his stunts are over, it is not quite clear what all the squirming and leaping were about...
Macduff laid on; swords clashed; and Macbeth got his in the second round. He died beautifully at the edge of the stage, heaving his final gasp practically in Vag's face. A moment later, Vag and the school kids all tried to get out of the same exit at the same time. The youngsters and their brazen school girl dates--those feline hellions with their startling curves, who had hissed vengefully at the dagger scene and necked vigorously throughout the banquet scene--now had little regard for a rheumatic oldster like Vag. Push as he might, he got nowhere until...
...face lathered in cold cream, his body clad only in a brief pair of shorts, a cheerful-looking young man sat on a stool before the mirror, surrounded by a make-up kit and tufts of false hair. He was busy pulling off long red eyebrows. Beside him lay a tinny helmet from which horns protruded. Standing up against the wall was a long sword, rather battered. The young man eyed Vag with an amused...