Word: faldstool
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...writing that has marked Author Prescott's more ambitious and accomplished works, e.g.,, Mary Tudor (TIME, Nov. 23, 1953) and Man on a Donkey (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952). But it is marred by a preening pedantry that too often finds Fulcun leaning on his quillons, sitting on a faldstool, glancing out of a dorter window or camping out on his alod-without benefit of definitions...
...FOOTNOTE*Quillons are the cross guards of a swordhilt; faldstool is a folding chair; dorter, a monastic dormitory; alod, land that is the absolute property of its owner...
...Vivat Regina Elizabetha! Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!" shouted the Queen's Westminster Scholars as the Queen walked up the aisle, her long, crimson train borne by six maids of honor. At a faldstool on the left of the altar, the Queen knelt and prayed alone. Silently she rose and stood before the altar, facing first east, then south, west and north, to show herself to the people. Four times, once to each side, the Archbishop of Canterbury proclaimed: "Elizabeth, your undoubted Queen: wherefore, all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, are you willing...
...John's Cathedral. In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium. A choir sang: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus ("Behold the great priest"). Protector noster aspice Deus ("Oh God, Our Protector, look upon us"), chanted the Bishop, while the Cardinal knelt at a faldstool. His brief liturgical reception over, Patrick Cardinal Hayes had nothing official to do until that evening when, in the Public Auditorium, he was publicly welcomed to Cleveland by Mayor Davis, Governor Davey, Bishop Schrembs, Judge Joy Seth Kurd. As official representative of President Roosevelt, who sent a warm greeting, Postmaster...
...intoning, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, tall Papal Secretary of State, opened last week the first consecration of a U. S. bishop ever to take place in St. Peter's in Rome. In full pontificals the Cardinal sat solemnly on a faldstool before the altar. Before him, bowing low in the cope, biretta and white stole of a priest, was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, 43, onetime grocer's boy and sandlot baseball player in Whitman, Mass., named last month by the Holy See to be Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (TIME, Aug. 15). In three great tribunes sat the entire Vatican...
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