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...piece of the very rock upon which St. Paul, preached was received with pomp and ceremony last week by Cathedral-builder Bishop Manning, who loves to collect relics for his fane. It is a 30-lb. chunk of rose granite...
Spanish republicans had special reason to belittle their former King last week. On Good Friday the Spanish Republic will celebrate with much pomp its second birthday. How was the young state doing...
...warm, sympathetic human being slaving nobly in their interest. For the arch-Republican New York Sun George Van Slyke reported: "Under Mellon and Mills the Treasury has been a cold storage plant. . . . The new secretary has been at ease, quite natural and simple, utterly free of official pomp and pose and has made a tremendous hit with everybody." Well aware of how the country was taking him, Secretary Woodin was moved to exclaim: "I'm stunned in admiration at the co-operation of the people. . . . We see light. This thing is not going to pieces...
...mother's jewelry box. In one short month the sound and fury have dropped below a far horizon. And the girls have drifted off to Bermuda in new tweed suits, or to Florida in picture hats. Now this, to the Vagabond, is altogether fitting. Not the vanishing of the pomp of little circumstance, but the drifting off of the girls. They have gone up into the collar like good Clydesdales and true and they should have rest from labor. But the Hegira, gentlemen, leaves Harvard strangely quiet and sorrowful and alone...
...soon to rule. At his side sat little child-faced William Hartman Woodin, soon to be master of the greatest treasury in the world. At his side sat professorial Raymond Moley, raised from the classroom to the councils of the great, but they had few thoughts of pomp and circumstance. The ruthless pressure of events gave them time to consider but one hard fact: that in four days the bank deposits of twelve states had been seized by the frozen hand of Depression...