Word: ge
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the Royal cortège lacked in grandeur was more than made up by pomp displayed by the Supreme Pontiff. At the technical frontier of the minuscule Vatican State the eight motor cars stopped. There, brilliant in the warm December sunshine stood Commendatore Serafini, Governor of Vatican City; Prince Massimo, Papal Postmaster General, gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform...
...test case the Berlin Labor Court held that any clause or agreement barring servants from Aufzüge or Fahrstüle is void, and branded all such prohibitions as "obsolete and anti-social." This ruling may be an opening wedge to compel landlords and employers to provide better living conditions for domestic servants. Even in modern Berlin apartment buildings, backstairs are unlighted, and despite the long German winter, maids' rooms are nearly always without heat...
Choral Improvisation "Jesu ge'voran...
Tilden, Champion William T. Tilden II lolled through an easy match against Arnold W. Jones of Yale, to take the Men's Rhode Island Championship. Paired with his favorite protége, A. L. ("Sandy") Weiner, he won the men's doubles, defeating S. Howard Voshell and Alfred Chapin...
...Paris, except the Royalists and Communists, turned out to witness the passing of the cortège. In the Latin Quarter, men, women and children broke through the police lines to throw red eglantines and red carnations on to the catafalque, pushed by brother miners of Jaurés' home Department...