Word: shroud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a covered stand. A dripping crowd of men and women milled over temporary canvas footpaths; others, holding umbrellas, sat on chairs set on boards to keep them from sinking into the muddy turf of West Potomac Park. The central figure of the gathering was enveloped in a soggy shroud of white canvas. A little boy, David Hargreaves, tugged desperately at a red, white and blue cord but the shroud refused to come away. Two husky policemen finally seized the heavy canvas, dragged it off by main force to reveal the face and figure of the little...
Because Gobelin tapestry experts in 1892 fixed its date as about the time of Christ, because chemical analyses proved its stains to be blood, the Holy Tunic would seem to have better claims to authenticity than two other famed relics, the Holy Coat of Trier and the Holy Shroud of Turin. The Holy Shroud of Turin, an ancient piece of linen cloth in a silver casket locked with three silver keys, has belonged to the House of Savoy for 500 years. In 1898 it was the centre of a bitter controversy when art-historians suggested its outline of Christ...
...Turin, Italy, Smerildo Gonnella lay on a wooden cot. wrapped in a tattered shroud, ready for death. Twelve years he has thus been waiting. Predicted Smerildo Gonnella, who has been fed by kindly neighbors, "Any time...
...gondola or the three broken bodies to supply the story of the tragedy. Guesses: 1) Winter weather had contracted the balloon's gas to such a point that it fell like a dead weight. 2) Ice weighted it down. 3) Some instrument outside the gondola chafed at the shroud lines until they broke, thus allowing the gondola to fall free from the bag. One discovery was made, to heighten the honor of Aeronauts Fedeseemko, Oususkin &Vasenko as their ashes were laid away in the Kremlin wall. A logbook and barograph, still intact, showed that the balloon had climbed...
There is no reason why any effort should be made to shroud this cancellation of plans in an air of mystery; or to place any different interpretation upon it than the simple one that the President did not believe the ceremonies appropriate. This was the official reason advanced, and is perfectly logical. While the H.A.A. undoubtedly sponsored the ceremonies with the best of intentions, yet its decision was subject to the president's opinion; and President Conant simply did not think the ceremonies fitting...