Word: sacramentalism
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Finally, in the packjammed Stadium, 20,000 Catholics formed their ranks into a reproduction of a great monstrance (altar vessel to hold the sacred Host). Followed benediction of the Blessed Sacrament by Cardinal Hayes, which was preceded by a radio broadcast by the Pope, speaking in rapid, inaudible Latin and frequently fading out entirely. Later, Catholics learned that Pius XI had said...
...Congress along with one once owned by St. Francis de Sales, which is the great pride of the Cleveland diocese. One or the other of these chalices was to be used at the great Masses of the Congress, which was to close with Solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, by Cardinal Hayes, following a great Solemn Eucharistic Procession through Cleveland to the Stadium. There priests in chasubles, monsignori in purple, archbishops, bishops, mitred abbots investments of gold, altar boys in cassocks, nurses in uniforms, school children with bouquets, Knights of Columbus, Knights of St. John, policemen, firemen?20,000 well...
Judges in the final contest, which 15,000 New Yorkers went to hear and see, were Dr. Spaeth, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Luther Corwin Steward, a Washington folk-song collector. Al Smith may have felt a sympathy with the Blessed Sacrament Lyceum Quartet of Queens which arrived in red, purple, green and yellow striped bathing suits, sang I've Been Working on the Railroad and Mandy Lee. But he and his colleagues unanimously liked best the Bay City Four (a teacher, a cashier, a clerk, a statistician) from Brooklyn. These young singers slicked their hair over their foreheads...
Before receiving the Blessed Sacrament at Mass, a Roman Catholic must have fasted strictly since the midnight before. So also must an Anglican. Lipstick may be partly vegetable, may be licked or sucked into the mouth. Therefore, a woman lipsticked should not be given the sacrament, for fear she has broken her fast...
...greyhound racing. British intellectuals object to the fact that Buchan scholarship, without falsifying history, can make a great man look like a scamp, a scamp look like an honest fellow. He is friend to many a British pacifist yet he believes in what he calls "the eternal sacrament of war." In his career, he goes slowly and prudently, saves all his violent and romantic impulses for his books. He married a daughter of the rich Grosvenor clan, the Duke of Westminster's second cousin once removed...