Word: kissing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week, in public, the Pope would bestow upon the new cardinals their big, cartwheel-shaped red beaver hats, with 15 tassels, which each would hang in the sanctuary of his cathedral. They would kiss the papal slippers, hand and cheek, would be embraced in turn by their fellow Princes of the Church. Then, once more in secret, the Pope would present rings, perform the ceremony of "opening" and "closing" the cardinals' mouths, symbolizing the weighty matters which they were to hear and keep secret...
...commuting from his home in Trenton to sing at All Angels' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. At 12 he sang with Ernestine Schumann-Heink in a huge Ocean Grove (N. J.) festival, maintained perfect poise until the motherly contralto brought him back for a bow, gave him a resounding kiss. The War turned Richard Crooks's mind from singing. He overstated his age to join the 626th Aero Squadron, learned flying from Col. Clarence Chamberlin. He was selling insurance when the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church chose him from 46 applicants to be its tenor soloist. There followed concerts with...
There was no bench, there was no moon, There were no birds nor flowers. They did not kiss, they did not spoon- Accountant Petrov and the daughter...
...plutocratic United States and communistic Russia. When one remembers this, and hears the midnight oily speeches of the delegations, trimmed up with their little flags, so like a church convention, it is not easy to perish the thought that the League may, at Harvard, be only a kiss for Cinderella. Still, it is pleasant to see the delegate from Siam make a salaum to the gentleman from Azerbaijan. . . In the crimson simplicity of the New Lecture Hall...
Smith: Go as far as you like. If we were a couple of Frenchmen, we'd kiss each other. As it is we have to rely on a handshake...