Word: medallions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordering two fried eggs. This week he would have preferred a simple Mass and a breakfast with his staff. But too many people wanted to do him honor: around the necks of 50 million men & women all over the world he has figuratively hung copies of a simple medallion known as the "Miraculous Medal...
...stood apart, alone. He, too, wore a Chesterfield, but the striped trousers of morning dress individualized him. With easy dignity, he carried a mace--a long, metal staff topped by a medallion. Many saluted him, but he stood apart, with his mace and his tall silk hat. And a cigarette hanging out of his mouth...