Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down by the Hindu Court of Nasik. In effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry her to her ex-Maharaja. A third was to impart a "coconut baptism" to her child...
...complain that one is not getting enough press publicity is to appear undignified and ridiculous-unless one is a personage inherently dignified and sacred. Last week the Vatican daily, Osservatore Romano, complained that the Supreme Pontiff's latest encyclical, dealing with Education, had received the very meagrest publicity in the Fascistized press of Italy...
Meanwhile what was the Supreme Pontiff eating for breakfast? "We were obliged to send out hurriedly for some rolls," said a Papal functionary, "inasmuch as the Holy Father's frugal breakfast consists almost entirely of bread...