Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viva il Presidente! Viva il Presidente! rang the streets of Castel Gandolfo, the Papal summer residence, as excited Italian villagers last week cheered the arrival of a man they thought was president...
...Brown Derby and cigar with which he had had himself photographed on his arrival in Rome, Al Smith had substituted, before his audience, the required full dress and top hat. Kneeling, he received the Papal blessing, then had a chance to chat privately with His Holiness, with Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, rector of Rome's North American College, interpreting. To Pius XI, Mr. Smith offered a ten-inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower...
...surprising that the Pope refused to crack down on Cardinal Mundelein. First, they are close friends. The first Eucharistic Congress ever to meet in the U. S. met in Chicago in 1926. That Cardinal Mundelein was chosen to organize this Congress was considered a special Papal tribute. Second the Cardinal had "a mass of accumulated evidence that could no longer be overlooked." Third, the Cardinal, who lives simply, has fine collections of coins and incunabula, is one of the Catholic Church's most successful money-raisers...
...steel headpiece, or morion, dates from 1575 and was worn in the state guard of Francesco de Medici, while the one of gold is a burgonet of 1550 from the Papal Guard. Both pieces represent the half century when the decoration of armor was most splendid without detracting from its defense...
...forgotten that Keats died in Rome. It was only by accident last night while lingering in the Piazza Di Spagna--the center of life of the old Papal Rome--that my eye wandered from the beautiful fountain of the "Baracaccia" to an inscription in Italian and English on the side of an old red building saying that here in 1822 the young English poet died...