Word: papal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dusky, lustrous eyes of Roman citizens grew large and moist with awe, last week, when a Papal medal as big as a smallish soup plate was borne pompously across the "Eternal City...
...loved Claudia. . . . Between the duties of the principate and the dignity of the purple on the one hand, and on the other, his love for Claudia ... he was lashed into one of those tragic passions which wreck men's lives. . . . He was growing old waiting for the papal dispensation which would permit his marriage with Claudia...
...Papal table is usually supplied with Italian, not French, wines...
Foot Wrenched. Pain sharpened the lines of His Holiness' usually serene and always amiable face last week. Descending from the papal automobile for his diurnal promenade in the Vatican gardens he wrenched his right foot. After a day in his private quarters he forced himself to give his usual audiences in the throne room. The pain continued. So public, but not private, audiences have been suspended for the present. Before his election to the Papacy he was a doughty mountain climber. Age, not immuration, is responsible for his present frailty. Next May His Holiness will be 72 years...
Died. Giovanni Cardinal Tacci, 64, archbishop of Nicaea, papal nuncio in Belgium during the World War; in Rome. In February 1922, erroneous reports from Rome told that Cardinal Tacci had been made pope by the Conclave of Cardinals...