Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uneventful trip, except that in the evening, the President gave a handful of cigars to policemen guarding the station platform at Norwich, Conn. Next morning at 8:00 a. m. the little train pulled into the station at Salem, Mass. A crowd was waiting. The President and Mrs. Coolidge, "his gracious spouse," as a Washington newspaper described her, appeared on the rear platform. Several office-seekers hurried to them?Senator William M. Butler, who will have to face the Massachusetts electorate against onetime (1919-25) Senator David I. Walsh next year, and Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, widow of the late...
Idlers along the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass., last week beheld a scene out of the sepia supplements of the Sunday papers. A beamy, 35-foot Navy cutter was moving steadily by, showing neither smoke nor sail and emitting a "put-put-put" altogether too faint to be coming from a gasoline motor proportionate to the craft's size. Men on the deck were observing a smokeless stack that rose amidships, a cylinder 3½ feet in diameter and 9½ feet high. The stack was revolving. The vessel was a U. S. rotorship-the first...
...celebrated the silver jubilee of the day in 1900 when he became titular bishop of Nicaea. The ceremony was simple, because of the recent death of the Cardinal's mother. The great basilica was almost empty. With the ancient ritual, before assembled ecclesiastics, Merry del Val said mass. As he came down from the altar, the Te Deum of thanksgiving pealed forth...
...Worcester, Mass., is a Roman Catholic college of renown-Holy Cross. In the college is a library, in the library a librarian. The latter, by recent appointment, is one Foster W. Stearns...
Father Jogues, "little father of the wilderness," was the discoverer of Lake George and the first white man to penetrate to Lake Superior. He was caught, tortured by the Indians. Pope Uurban VIII granted him a dispensation to say mass with mutilated hands...