Word: pall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord's Supper. The liturgy of the Holy Communion was said as the Archbishop led the Queen to the Communion rail. Kneeling, she removed her Crown and offered the oblation which custom demands of monarchs: "An ingot or wedge of gold, of a pound weight," and "a pall or altar cloth." Philip, her husband, stepped to her side, and while the choir sang the hymn, All People That on Earth Do Dwell, man & wife received the bread and wine. Together, they led the prayer: "Our Father, Which art in Heaven . . ." Thus, freely confessing that "Thine is the kingdom...
...mile route of the coronation procession, Londoners and gawk-eyed visitors cheered London's bright new look. For months, the old city had looked as untidily unattractive as a dowager in a wrapper, curlers and mudpack. Statues were boarded up, the handsome old clubs in St. James and Pall Mall were defaced with iron scaffoldings, half of Westminster Square lay awash in cold rows of unpainted platforms and stands. But as if on signal last week, the curlers and mudpack came off, and London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations, designed by Sir Hugh Casson (architect...
Herbert strains the budding romance by planting dead cats on the widower's doorstep with tags addressed to "Old Runt" and "Old Weasel." When such shenanigans pall, Herbert has his daughter read to him about Nazi atrocities at Belsen. "Lunatics are all about us," he warns...
...right to investigate whatever it pleases, and 2) Communists should be barred from teaching. Nor was anyone in a state of panic. And yet, the climate of the campuses had already begun to change. The investigations, said Dean Milton Muelder of Michigan State College, "have cast a pall, a shadow, creating doubt as to how far scholars can now go in discussing controversial issues...
...long, lavender coat and jeweled turban, stalking through the rubble of wartime London with her inevitable, restless, prying umbrella, authoritative as a royal mace, or the sight of the old Queen pottering in & out of antique shops, slipping into the back row of suburban movie theaters, sweeping down Pall Mall in her towering automobile. "I think they call it a Daimler," she told a bemused G.I. to whom she gave a ride...