Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secular court, by Princes Orsini, Boncompagni, Massimo, Aldobrandini. On the way to St. Peter's there joined this group the Noble Guard, the Knights of the Cape and Sword, all the Cardinals in Rome, Patriarchs from the East, white-mitred abbots, purple-clad canons of St. Peter's, Swiss Guards, Palatine Guards, members of religious orders in sombre habits. At the entrance of St. Peter's the Pope was raised on his sedia gestatona; the bearers of the fiabelli (huge, iridescent fans of ostrich and peacock feathers) took their places; so too the various guards took their positions; the procession...
...year term of President Dr. Jean M. Musy of the Swiss Confederation will expire. Last week the Swiss Federal Assembly, the Bundes-Versammlung, at Bern, chose as his successor according to custom the Vice President, M. Henri Haeberlin, famed Swiss barrister, Minister of Justice for the past year and sometime Premier...
...student in the Law School although he holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Geneva. After speaking a few words on the work of the C. I. E. in Europe, he has agreed to the request of the Union management to play a selection of Swiss folk songs on the accordion. Dr. Habicht is exceptionally talented on this instrument and has helped in many benefit entertainments...
...annual, printing bill incurred by the League runs at about 200,000 Swiss francs...
Last week, however, the suave and efficient Sir Eric* received tidings which foreshadowed a modicum of English recreation amid the Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...