Word: pontifex
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Soon from the Vatican came the Summus Pontifex's command that every church in Rome should hold a service of expiation. This was done forthwith...
...like tourists. In the Hall of St. John, antechamber to the Sola del Tronetto (room of the "little throne"), the royal and papal procession stopped. Two bussolanti (official door openers), in scarlet damask knee breeches, flung wide the doors. There, smiling benignly through his steel rimmed spectacles, stood the Pontifex Maximus...
...Panama's distinguished Foreign Minister J. Demóstenes Arosemena. Flushed and embarrassed these ladies hastily sought a modiste not far from the Vatican, bought gowns with longer skirts and sleeves, returned, were passed by the nuns, knelt and received the blessing of Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pontifex Maximus, Pope Pius...
...plum exclusively to Thomas B. Morgan, onetime Associated Press correspondent and now Chief of the Rome Bureau of the rival United Press. Although lean, astute, close-mouthed Tom Morgan has been getting down to the Vatican for over a decade, he professed himself "amazed," last week, when the Summus Pontifex received him not in the Papal Throne Room but privily in his library. Observant Tom Morgan noted that Pio Undecimo was wearing "his little zucchetto or skull cap," and that "he spoke in a calm deliberate way". . . . first in Italian and then in English...
...scurrilous correspondent of the wet Chicago Tribune pretended that the Summits Pontifex also said, last week, "We consider the Volstead Act immoral and contrary to the laws of Christ." Although the Savior and His disciples and the Virgin Mary did, indeed, all drink wine, it is impossible that the discreet Holy Father could have made such a remark within hearing of the world press...