Word: pontificale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britain's Christmas waits (streetwalking carol-singers) last week had a new carol to add to their repertoire of Wenceslas, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, and 'Ark The 'Erald Haingels Sing. Sir Edward Elgar, potent and pontifical British composer and conductor, master of the King's...
Campaigning for next year's presidency was hardbitten. Dr. Percy Howe of Harvard Dental School ended his term last week. Dr. Robert Boyd Bogle of Nashville, president-elect last year, assumed the presidency. Who would be chosen president-elect? Army dentists and those who served in the Dental Corps...
Almost as remote from politics as the Royal Family was Punch, last week, and its pontifical editor, Sir Owen Seaman, agile rhymster, able after-dinner speaker, onetime professor of literature.
From the offices of sleek Sir Joseph Duveen, international art dealer, who had originally sold the paintings to Collector Hamilton, came a gala descriptive brochure. In it were pontifical utterances of Bernhard Berenson, famed European art critic who hovers eruditely in the background of most Duveen dealings.
The "military correspondents" of London papers wrote that this was the first time in British history that a sentry had disappeared from a British Royal sentry post. They took comfort in the fact that the King was not in residence at Buckingham Palace when the vanishment occurred. "The matter is...