Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immense throng of royalty, nobility, ambassadors and Holy Year pilgrims packed in the great basilica of St. Peter's, the five new cardinals heard Pius XI order from his raised throne: "Accipe galerum rubrum!" (Take the red hat!), and each had held over his head by a master of ceremonies the low-crowned, wide, curled-brim red hat of the cardinal. Brother cardinals caught them by the elbows and kissed them on both cheeks; the queerly plump Sistine choir sang; His Holiness departed; all cardinals adjourned to sing a Te Deum; the happy audience departed...
...heavy grey ulster with a lining of green stripes arrived in Washington and was rushed to 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. by a special messenger of the B. & O. Railway. A delighted secret service man received it and despatched it to his master's bedroom. He then informed the President that the presidential ulster had been left behind in a hotel room at Chicago on President Coolidge's recent visit there-left behind but recovered. The President did not smile. He does not like to have his clothing lost, and the secret service men are responsible for preserving his wardrobe...
Rodman Wanamaker bought four Stradivarius violins, "Conte La Chesnaie" (1687), "Dancla" (1710), "Joachim" (1723), and that consummately powerful and resonant violin which is called "The Swan" because it is the last one the master-carver made before he died. It bears the inscription, "In My Ninety-Third Year." Mr. Wanamaker will not use these instruments himself. They will be played in concerts in the auditoriums of Wanamaker Stores in Manhattan, Philadelphia...
...program of Christmas music will be sung at the three services by the Appleton Chapel Choir and the Choral Society of Radcliffe College. Dr. Carroll C. Pratt, organist and Choir-master during the absence of Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will direct the musical program...
...DISAPPOINTED SQUIRREL- W. H. Hudson-Doran ($2.50) True stories about animals from a master pen held by a man who understood animals. Excerpts from The Book of a Naturalist. Illustrated...