Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointed out by Dr. Sassard, his French physician of many years, has never been popular among his turbulent subjects. Every conversation the physician has had with his Imperial patient, writes Dr. Sassard, "gave me further reason to admire and respect this Sovereign, who is so different from those who surround him and from his own people, and who is so superior to them. ... In his motionless face only his eyes seem alive-brilliant, elongated, extremely expressive eyes. They bespeak boredom as well as polite indifference, cold irony, or even anger. The courtiers know these different expressions well and retire suddenly...
...surround...
...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-drilled Catholics?were to form a Living Monstrance, a reproduction of the sacred altar vessel whose jeweled cross and golden sun rays surround a glass-enclosed clip holding the Consecrated Host. At the centre, garbed in voluminous vestments and wearing pontifical gloves entitling him to bless in the name of the Pope. Cardinal Hayes was to stand, completely surrounded by the body of the Monstrance, people who in turn would be surrounded...
...good fortune was only beginning. Chardon made her a star. To surround her with glamour, he let it be known that she had been the mistress of Camilo el Durqui, Argentine sportsman, who supposedly had been lost on a transatlantic flight-the same eccentric, grocery-delivering millionaire. As Coralee rose to fame on this hoax-"all Paris twittered over her aura of mystery"-Camilo el Durqui returned, uninjured but angry...
From the tangled web of conflicting stories which surround the closing of the Lampoon Building Monday, there emerged yesterday a fairly clear and logical sequence of accurate facts...