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Opposite this entrance, ranged like a football crowd on the tiers of a stadium, beneath a classic portico and around a towering monument of Winged Victory, stand the leaders of the French nation-Marshal Joffre in the centre, "Tiger" Clémenceau, arms crossed, four-square with hands behind his back, with Marshal Foch close by, brooding alone at one side; President Poincaré, expectant, surrounded by frock-coated colleagues...
...last week to Rome, meekly regretting their inability to be there in person the day before Christmas to see His Holiness Pius XI close with his own hands, with a jeweled trowel of ivory and silver spread mortar and set stones to close the Holy Door in the portico of St. Peter's magnificent basilica on the 23rd Jubilee Year of the Catholic Church. The closing ceremonies were gorgeous, drawing some 70,000 clerics and lay people into St. Peter's itself, and many thousands of the more humble into the public square outside, where they got a vicarious spiritual...
...night, the dome and portico of St. Peter's and the obelisk in St. Peter's Square, which Caligula brought from Egypt, were illuminated for the first time since 1870, when the Papacy was deprived of its temporal power. The illumination was done not with electricity but with thousands of tallow torches and candles, many of which were encased in saucer-shaped lanterns, giving the impression of a blazing building. It took 300 men a fortnight to prepare the pyro display. Many thousands of frantic people cheered in polyglot tongue: "Long live the Pope!" "Vivet la Sainte...
...Three thousand members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see Page 15) appeared in the White House grounds. The President addressed them from the south portico, saying: "You are the wonder-workers of all the ages. . . . We trust ourselves to you, perhaps with some doubt as to what you many finally do with us and to us, but at least with firm convictions that your activities will save life .from becoming very monotonous. And, besides, we realize that if we did not give you our confidence, you would go ahead without...
...majestic notes of Longhi's pontifical march, blared out by six silver trumpets, apprised waiting throngs of the Holy Father's arrival in the portico. After a pause, during which the Fathed donned his white and gold mitre and changed from the closed sedan to the famed sedia gestoria, the procession crossed the portico to where the papal throne had been set before the Holy Door of St. Peter's. There the Pope descended and, while all knelt, approached the throne, accompanied by two attendants holding flabelli-great ostrich-feather fans-on either side of his head...