Word: raphael
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...late Ludwig Mond owned many an old painting - an early Raphael, a Botticelli, a Titian. These he bequeathed as the Mond Collection, contingent upon his wife's death, to the National Gallery in London...
...Brother of Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, onetime Pontifical Secretary of State (1903-14). Sons of the late Don Rafael Merry del Val, famed Spanish diplomat, both Alfonso & Raphael were educated partly in England...
Last week a telephone tinkled in the London residence of the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim. It was Captain Hamilton calling from Upavon, Wiltshire. The weather reports were favorable. His plane, the St. Raphael, was ready. Her maid hastily packed two brief cases, two red hat boxes, a little wicker basket and bundled them into a motor. The Princess entered the automobile and ordered speed...
Outside on the flying field a woman was kneeling. Over her the Most Rev. Francis Mostyn, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, was praying, asking a blessing. On the ship he sprinkled holy water. Soon rose the motor roar which drowns goodbys on flying fields. The St. Raphael moved, gained speed, just averted disaster at the takeoff, and disappeared toward the Atlantic...
...hours later the ship was seen from Ireland heading out to sea. Many hours later the Standard Oil steamer Josiah Macy saw an airplane midway between America and England flying westward. Many, many hours later, after the St. Raphael's fuel was long exhausted, came reports of fierce head winds. She must have met heavy fog. But no reports of two men in a monoplane who had set out across the sea or of the Princess behind them down the tiny corridor from the cockpit, sitting surrounded by red hat boxes and a little basket in a wicker chair...