Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his U. S. visit, Papal Secretary Pacelli also visited the Cardinal-Archbishops of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. He made a dash to the Pacific Coast, where San Francisco's Catholic Mayor Angelo Rossi kissed the episcopal ring, dashed back East to Manhattan, where Catholic Postmaster General James A. Farley also knelt...
...narrow knickerbockers and high laced shoes, Artist Matisse frequented at that time the Moulin Rouge and the Moulin de la Galette, contemplating the dancing cocottes that lame Toulouse-Lautrec had painted so shrewdly a few years earlier. Artist Matisse felt that the farandole, a sort of strumpets' ring-around-a-rosy popular at both music halls, would be a suitable subject for the grand staircase of a Moscow bourgeois, and that is what he sent to his patron, reduced to simplest terms of nude figures and primitive colors...
...been so jittery about what to wear that hurried inquiries had been sent to the State Department's Division of Protocol & Conferences, which stipulated morning coats, long-sleeved and high-necked frocks. Many a great lady got a new thrill as she curtsied, kissed the Cardinal's ring. For everyone present well knew that this lean, smiling Italian prelate may well be the next Pope...
...Yuma, Ariz. Theirs was a hectic 20-month romance featured by a much-publicized cross-country chase with Actor Barrymore in the lead. Protégée Barrie last August announced she "would infinitely prefer to terminate our blessed relationship," but retained the 8½-carat diamond ring he had given her. Said he: "I'm so happy you wouldn't be able to print...
Opening night was the most brilliant on record. The crowd of 15,000 that packed Madison Square Garden crackled with applause when a severe, vaguely familiar-looking man in a tail coat came out into the ring to receive the salute of 26 of the world's ablest cavalry officers, picked from Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, the Irish Free State, Sweden and the U. S. He was General John Joseph Pershing. Most popular event of the evening was the performance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. More spectacular than in fiction or cinema, a troop...