Word: tiara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fell to their knees, crossed themselves, received the Pope's blessing as he passed, his left hand holding a lighted candle, his right, with two fingers extended, gesturing over the heads of his children. So passed the glorious personage gowned in white and gold,* crowned with the jeweled triple tiara, with the Papal pectoral cross hung from his neck...
...obverse of the medal will show Pius XI and tiara; the reverse, the K. of C. Gymnasium and Playground erected on Vatican land at St. Peter's. It is the first Papal medal ever struck for an American organization...
...managed to draw into the background a little and so give the impression that the President is perceptibly taller, which, of course, is not the case. . . . She was proud to be Mrs. Woodrow Wilson but she didn't want to wear the dome of the Capitol for a tiara...