Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embraced, that is to have their Necks kissed. For as to kissing of Lips or Cheeks it is not the Mode here; the first is reckon'd rude, and the other may rub off the Paint." At 78, his great task accomplished, he sailed for home, kept himself occupied on the voyage by writing two treatises: The Causes & Cures of Smoky Chimneys, Description of a New Stove for Burning of Pitcoal and Consuming All Its Smoke...
...months, every move, every gesture of this auspicious tableau had been argued and arranged between committees of papal and royal experts in etiquette. Chief rub: Papal etiquette demanded that visiting sovereigns should kiss the Pope's toe. Vittorio Emanuele, or Benito Mussolini, found this unbecoming to the dignity of the House of Savoy (TIME, Nov. 25). Hence the compromise, the one-kneed genuflection. His Holiness did not leave Their Majesties kneeling long. Quickly he motioned them to their feet, led them to two armchairs placed on a level with and on either side of his "Little Throne,"* which...
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...Pope Pius XI in a Fascist black shirt and Mussolini with the Papal Tiara perched on his rather bald head. The caricatured insinuation is always that His Holiness and His Excellency are reprehensibly in cahoots. Last week in the Vatican Gardens occurred a scene which made the scurrilous inkmen rub their stained hands with glee. Some 150 prominent Fascists, members of the Royal Automobile Club, had mo tored down from Milan to assist at the presentation to Pope Pius of a second new and sumptuous limousine (TIME, May 6). Senator Silvio Crespi, as President of the Club, raised the automobile...
...interest in a professional fighter. The fighter was René De Vos, Belgian contender for the middleweight championship; sports - writers laughed merrily for days at the notion ot a respectable person engaging in the fight racket and of a decently dressed and wellspoken person undertaking to pat and rub a bloody pugilist between the rounds of a fight...