Word: pectorale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the natural amphitheatre by the row-boat-ridden Serpentine, military bands were playing "Tipperary," "A Long, Long Trail," old songs of the War. The bands ceased. Into the amphitheatre marched massed choirs of London churches in cassock and cotta, at their head the sedate Bishop of Kensington, Rt. Rev...
At first demure applause rippled over the throng; then as the Pope neared in a soft sway the faithful fell to their knees, crossed themselves, received the Pope's blessing as he passed, his left hand holding a lighted candle, his right, with two fingers extended, gesturing over the heads...
Dr. Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere. And now the prelates laid on him their hands, the "Primus" hung upon his neck the pectoral cross, placed upon his finger a ring...
A blond man of average height, with a mustache in the Kaiser Wilhelm manner, an inadequate nose, and a body that astonishingly, at the slightest excuse, erected mountain-ranges, mounds and melons of muscles-Eugene Sandow, like Mark Hanna, Lillian Russell, George Coxey, John L. Sullivan, was one of the...
The next visitors called upon the Pope in the wee hours of the morning. His Holiness was in bed, and in order not to wake him the gentlemen made as little noise as possible; in order not to disturb his court, they considerately let themselves in by the roof of...