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...century ago, the guest was the aged French general, the Marquis de Lafayette. Last week, the guest was the aged French ambassador, M. Jean Jules Jusserand. The trowel used was the one with which President Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol.* The rites observed were those colorful Masonic ones which were just being formulated in Washington...
...hammer of solid gold, its haft of carved ivory, studded with rubies, emeralds, aquamarines, lapis lazuli and engraved with solemn mottoes; a trowel, also of gold, also studded and graven; in a leather case, embossed and inlaid with gold and gems?these gifts of the episcopacy of the world were placed in the hands of Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius was pleased, elated...
Among the inscriptions on the presents was "Anno jubilaes MCMXXV", which is to say that 1925 is a Holy Year of Jubilee. On Christmas Eve, bearing his hammer and trowel according to the custom, Pope Pius will take his way to the Holy Door of St. Peter's. There he will strike upon the door with the hammer, crying out: "Open unto me the Gates of Justice." At the third stroke, masonry which has walled up the door since the last holy year (1825) will be made to crumble, the holy portal will gape. Assisted by Jubilee penitents, the Pope...
Last week, Governor Smith of New York journeyed down the Hudson to Manhattan to lay one of the numerous cornerstones for which the gubernatorial trowel is thought appropriate. It was the cornerstone of a theatre, a new home for the New York Theatre Guild, paid for by the Guild's $500,000 bond issue without the aid of any rich "good fairies." Six years ago, the Theatre Guild consisted only of a few theatre enthusiasts with $500 in cash and a desire "to produce plays of a character not ordinarily given a hearing by the commercial managers." Many...
...Florence Kling Harding: "For the first time since President Harding's death, I took part in a public ceremony. In Bridgeport, Conn., with a silver trowel I applied mortar to the cornerstone for the new $1,000,000 Warren Harding High School. Said I to interviewers: 'Some day I may go back to Ohio to engage in the newspaper business again...