Word: litters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less than 24 hours after the Star of Cairo took off from Paris, a party of marines reached a snowy peak in California's Laguna Mountains. There, among a litter of wrecked engines, with gaily wrapped Christmas packages amidst the twisted metal, they found what they had come for-the bodies of nine passengers and three crew members of Western Airlines Flight 44-El Centre to San Diego...
...collection. Included among much of little or no value, are some of the finest Italian paintings in the country including a Simone Martini polytych, a small Giorgione, and Titian's "Rape of Europa." French and German portraits, Flemish tapestries, and oriental works are also discernible, and delightful, among the litter of Sargents, Sorollas, and Zorns...
...Lima, never free-flowing, backed up for blocks. Lima's police fought to keep the crowds in hand. Then out through the studded doors of the Church of the Nazarenas and down the narrow street surged a procession of purple-clad penitents, with a great silver litter supported by straining men in the van. The 200th observance of Peru's most popular religious festival, the fiesta of Our Lord of Miracles, had begun...
...Each year the image of Our Lord of Miracles was borne in procession on visits to other Lima churches. The poorer classes made the festivity their own, and a brotherhood grew up, now numbering some 3,000, to organize the procession and above all, to carry the heavy litter with Our Lord of Miracles...
...Procesión de los Blancos, when the upper classes would be allowed a brief inning. Till then, business would be slow in Lima. Socialists and Communists, despite their dim. view of all religion, would not molest the procession. But if they tried, the broad-backed brotherhood of litter-carriers would strip off their purple coats and attend to them...