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Over the western portal had emerged a figure, austere, terrifying in its solemnity. On its hoary head glittered a golden crown, over its shoulders shone a brilliant red chasuble. A long, patriarchal beard fluttered in the wind. For a moment the Figure was silent, then bellowed: I perceyve here in my majeste How that all creatures be to me unkynde, Lyvynge without drede in worldely prosperyte; Of ghostly syght the people be so blynde, Drowned in synne they know me not for theyr God; In worldely ryches is all theyr mynde...
...half-million eyes watched the centre portal of St. Peter's, symbolic on this occasion of the Vatican's boundary. When the Pope crossed that threshold he would end Papai imprisonment, voluntarily undergone for 59 years...
...murmur swelled: "They are coming!" Out the portal, down the steps of the basilica marched detachments of Papal gendarmes in towering busbies. The blue-clad Palatine Guards wore helmets topped with lazy plumes. Followed many monks and the first of a host of 5,000 seminarians from all over the world. Four abreast, chanting, bearing lighted tapers, they followed the line of march beneath Bernini's massive colonnade which encloses St. Peter's Square. This took them in serpentine procession around a huge circle, back to the basilica steps. When the column's head drew up before the church...
...Senator and wife of Playwright George Middleton. But Jo Davidson did not appear. From 7 o'clock in the evening until 4 o'clock in the morning he kept a cold vigil by the entrance of the Anderson Galleries while workmen gingerly engineered his ponderous statue through a portal which was almost too narrow...
From the German Foreign Office stepped Dr. Gustav Stresemann, jaunty and smartly attired despite his rotundity. Passing down the famed Wilhelmstrasse (William Street) he crossed the Wilhelmplatz (William Square), entered the tall gloomy portal of the U. S. Embassy, and strode briskly up its cheerful, white stone stair. Soon Dr. Stresemann was handing a crisp, official envelope to U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime President of Cornell University...