Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MacRory on behalf of Cardinal Hayes who was vacationing in Nassau. Piercingly blue-eyed and looking not unlike his New York colleague, the 73-year-old Irish Cardinal was whisked uptown to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where the bells tolled and 1,000 schoolgirls waved U. S. and Papal flags. Stepping out upon a green velvet carpet, Cardinal MacRory took from Monsignor Lavelle a crucifix, which he kissed, and a holy water hyssop, with which he sprinkled the congregation as he walked up the aisle. Wearing a scarlet ferraiuolo, the Cardinal prostrated himself in prayer at a priedieu. Then...
...Papal Knight Kahn...
...postage stamp engravers. Most famed uniforms are a gradual outgrowth of ancient traditions. Thus the sailors of Britain still wear round their necks a black silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers are known. Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss papal guard exactly as it is still worn. The Potsdam Grenadier Guards' uniform was designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon was a gas, designed the buttons that still grace the coatees of West...
...Caesar was created in the Papal State last week, and unto him were rendered for six months the things which are Caesar's. Screamed headlines: DICTATOR NAMED FOR VATICAN CITY. In effect wise old Pius XI delegated all but the things which are God's in the Papal State to its trusty Governor, Marquis Camillo Serafini...
...usual the will and pleasure of the Supreme Pontiff were made known by the Papal paper, Osservatore Romano, with matchless sonority and unction: "The Holy Father has deigned to place his venerated signature to a law whereby the Governor of the State for a period of six months beginning Jan. 1, 1935 is given legislative power with reference to the constitution, the suppression and reorganization of the offices of civil administration...