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...bearded Archpriest whose rich vestments recalled the pomp of Holy Russia stood, last week, with streaming eyes beside the deathbed of Peter Nicholaie-vich, Baron Wrangel. The place was merely a retired suburban villa, near Brussels, Belgium; but, as Death came to the lanky care-worn Baron, men recalled how recently and with what high courage he and his Cossack army all but succeeded in overthrowing the Soviet regime...
Soon no knightly honor was so prized as membership in the "Society of the Garter," founded by Edward III, circa 1347. Today King-Emperor George V presides over what is now the "Most Noble Order of the Garter;" and last week His Majesty appointed with great pomp three new Garter-Knights...
Last week the Imperial Household Ministry let fall, provisionally, words and dates significant to the smart. On Nov. 3, 1928, the Tenno will depart amid pomp from Tokyo, and arrive next day at the ancient capital of Kyoto. There he will be crowned on Nov. 7, and will pass the subsequent week in "Sacred Rituals and Banquets...
King Sisowath was lamented for seven months by his one hundred widows, and finally buried with pomp by French state officials. His body had remained seven months doubled up in an urn covered with mercury, aromatic oils...
...pomp that Italy could muster was displayed at Marshal Diaz's state funeral, last week, but it paled before two simple scenes enacted while the dead hero yet lay in his own small room at Rome, with four tall candles at the corners of his iron...