Word: queues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...door of Mansion House, Dublin, a queue of mourners formed last week, four abreast and stretching back a distance slightly greater than one mile. Within, tall white candles lighted the bier of a 34-year-old man robed in the habit of Our Lady of Carmel. His expression was serene. The pallid hands enfolded a crucifix resting upon his breast. This was Kevin Christopher O'Higgins, in life Vice President and Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. Three undetected gunmen had murdered him from their automobile (TIME, July 18); and last week Free State citizens seemed even more...
...Beerbohm caricatured the queue of fashionables awaiting a sitting at Sargent's door and Sargent grew to say "paughtraits" in mock disgust. The Boston Library and Harvard gave him splendid scope for his genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...
What the sentence consisted of was "reduction of four numbers in grade," meaning that Colonel Williams now stands No. 22 instead of No. 18 in the queue of Colonels waiting to be made Brigadier Generals. He will have to wait in line about six months or a year more than he would had he not invited General Butler to his party that night. Later, Colonel Williams was transferred from San Diego to San Francisco, put in charge of the western recruiting service...
Died. Che Mah, 88, self-styled "smallest man in the world; in Chicago. He was 28 inches in height with a queue 13 feet long. Imported from Choo Sang (island) by P. T. Barnum in 1881, he became wealthy from self-exhibition, retired in 1890, was twice married to U. S. women, by the first of whom he had a son of normal size...
...been praying for hours in the street outside the clinic crossed themselves once again; rose with stiffened knees and chilled bodies. "Requiem in aetemam dona eis, Domine," prayed all society. Lying in state at Malines on Sunday, the frail old body was approached with reverence by a long queue. They touched the hems o? hio robes, they brough/ pious tokens and keepsakes for the cold fingers to brush. Toward evening the line still stretched far down the dusky avenue. There was rioting before the doors were shut. The funeral was to take place during the week, probably a state funeral...