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...called Keys of Earth & Heaven crossed beneath the Papal Tiara was the device which adorned postage stamps of the Papal State up to 1870. Last week Protestant and Ku Klux postmen faced the possibility that they may have to deliver letters bearing such stamps, should a new series be issued by the newly reorganized Papal State (TIME, Feb. 18). In Rome last week the question "What about stamps?" drew this suave, disarming answer from Francesco, Prince Massimo...
...agitating great clusters of ostrich plumes upon long poles. His garment was white of a creamy richness, but lis robe was all bloodred. On his breast blazed the Crux Pectorale, a great cross of diamonds. And above the shapely, bespectacled head of Pope Pius XI towered the holy apostolic tiara of pure, massy gold...
Lady Astor (née Nancy Witcher Langhorne of Mirador, Grenwood, Va.), member of the British Parliament, arrived on the Aquitania with 27 pieces of baggage, a diamond tiara and a daughter (Phyllis). They were met at the pier by Lady Astor's sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. They are to attend the great ball given by Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. For reporters, Lady Astor had some of her customary quixotic generalities: "I am a wily old politician and I won't be trapped. . . . Women do not vote as do their husbands. That...
...Tuttle possesses the accomplishment of wearing a high comb (occasionally diamond studded) with the authentic air of a peeress supporting a tiara. Such gracious poise, when supported by copious and persuasive League small talk, has converted many a Manhattan parson, brought round numerous editors and educators, and secured-hearty cooperation from dozens of distinguished persons who were not previously "League conscious...
...requested, special pains and over 3,000 words to the gowning of my theme, when it actually appeared it was only half clothed--and radically differently, at that. Most of the scholarly detail was mutilated or entirely missing. In several places, decent color was suggestively heightened. The egotistical tiara which concluded the new version was made from foolscap, paste, and ink not of my manufacture and was substituted for the constructive suggestions which alone gave excuse and meaning to my design. Lastly, the editors of Liberty, possessed by an extreme Annanias complex, left me to shoulder the blame for their...