Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still abed. Few were the early risers who saw, one morning last week, four automobiles speeding by a devious route-past the Temple of Vesta, the Palatine, the Circus Maximus and the Coliseum-to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, which is the cathedral of the Diocese, its high altar reserved to the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. A small party of ecclesiastics got out of the motors, entered the church...
...healthy, wooden-faced men in the Mount Athos monasteries were reluctant to tell where the hermit lived. The visitors found him in a high labyrinth of bowlders, a place with a pure blue sky and the sound of bees. "Come in," answered a frail voice (in Russian) when they called. "Here...
...validity of other Protestant orders (latest instance: Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning's) forbidding Dr. Karl Reiland to allow Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin to officiate at a communion service in an Episcopal church (TIME, Nov. 25), think Episcopalians have no right to call themselves Protestants. Many high-church Episcopalians agree with them, dislike the name Protestant, would like to change their church's name to something like American Catholic.* Last week the P. E. high-church weekly, The Living Church, printed an article by Dr. Frederick Henry Lynch, Congregationalist minister, editor of Christian Work and Evangelist...
...discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their sales list in the twelve American retail stores, in the hope that dwindling piano sales might be offset. But the high price of pianos has not been able to compete with the comparatively low price of radios and phonographs. Since 1924 when total U. S. shipment of pianos was 300,000, sales have steadily decreased. Estimated sales...
...momentarily overlooked except for the day he presided over the ceremonies at which Esther was declared champion, and even then the president of the Republic played second fiddle to Esther. With insuperable eyes, perfect body and delicate lines, Esther has been admired this week by a great array of high government officials, diplomats and society matrons...