Word: relics
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...beautiful and imposing . . . Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant." The Nouvelles Litteraires' Jean Wenger found the mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist Felix Raugel harrumphed to his astounded colleagues, was a fraud and a hoax...
Since before World War II, a group of archaeologists led by New York University's Dr. Karl Lehmann has dug among the ruins of the Great Gods' shrine. The most famous relic, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which stood on the bow of a marble ship heading toward the sea, had been removed to the Louvre, but marble fragments of the shrine's buildings still choke a narrow valley...
...cauldrons of Massachusetts, Niles entered the White House under Harry Hopkins' banner, soon got to be one of President Roosevelt's six assistants with "a passion for anonymity." When Harry Truman moved in in 1945, shrewd Dave Niles stayed on, before long was the only New Deal relic left in the President's "little cabinet...
...born wife and Secretary of State Acheson, news leaked that the U.S. was negotiating for Vogeler's release. A press association correspondent reported that the Hungarians were demanding the return of the 1,000-year-old crown of St. Stephen as ransom for Vogeler. The crown, a religious relic and symbol of. Hungarian sovereignty, was stolen by the Nazis, recovered by the U.S. Army. Roman Catholic dignitaries, including New York's Cardinal Spellman, protested against the return of the crown...
...years, was whisked away from its native heath last week and carried back into English captivity. A handful of diehard Scots stood by in sad farewell to the 485-lb. yellow sandstone symbol of Scottish nationalism. Only a scattering of newsmen attempted pursuit as British policemen carried the ancient relic in an official car from ruined Arbroath Abbey, south across the border to London's Westminster, from which it had been lifted last Christmas (TIME...