Word: phials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naples. In a small phial in a Catholic chapel in Naples abides a red substance which all the faithful recognize as the congealed blood of St. Januarius. Twice a year the clotted mass dissolves-usually in May and September. Last week Crown Prince Humbert appeared in Naples for a day. The blood dissolved. Newspapers printed extras. The populace saw heavenly favor for the Prince...
...ingenious knicknacks for Giulio de' Medici (Pope Clement VII). These smiths have tinted lightly the petals of this Rose with pink, the leaves with green, so that the spray glistens with a heart-stopping iridescence of varied movement and light. To aid verisimilitude the spray contains a secret phial which the Pope himself filled with balsam and essence of musk before handing it to Monsignor Ferdinand de Croji, whom he charged to deliver it to Queen Elizabeth as a testimonial of his esteem. The Rose, for the benefit of the calculating, weighs 1.100 kilograms (2b.). The base bears the inscription...
...must always be so; it must be perpetuated. To the limbo of Lampooniana, you editors who do not know it; to the limbo, and let scissors, inkpot, paste, and neophyte stand waiting until you have searched and found, tugged and pulled, and dragged into editorial light the sacred phial which holds the essence of Lampy. In that, then, did your pens...