Word: mantels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unique feature about Gaebler's ceremonies was the presence of Hugo Mantal, a Jewish rabbi, on the ordaining council. Mantel, formerly rabbi of a Cambridge temple, is now at the army chaplains school here and participated in the rituals at Gaebler's request and with the agreement of the church authorities. At their most liberal, ordaining councils usually merely contain Christians of various denominations...
There may be a painting of a schooner over Donald Douglas' mantel, but Endymion today is a cutter. Thousands of Los Angeles yachtsmen, familiar with Endymion's magnificent single stick, remember that she was converted to a more modern rig a number of years...
...Harry Truman, bottle duster, bank clerk and would-be haberdasher, was bogged deep in failure. All he had to show for his career was an old army uniform and a loving cup too ostentatious to keep on the mantel...
Franklin Roosevelt's oval second floor study had a festive air. Vases of white gladioli and chrysanthemums stood on the mantel. The big marble fireplace was banked with greens. Tall American Beauty roses stood in vases on his mahogany desk. As the hands of the old-fashioned French clock on the mantel neared noon, the President moved to a seat at the right of the fireplace. There he sat, while the 44 wedding guests arrived...
Nervous Harry Hopkins missed no lines, dropped no ring, scuffed no shoes. At 18 minutes after twelve, by the mantel clock, the ceremony was over. Franklin Roosevelt took "Louie" Macy Hopkins' hand, kissed her on the cheek...