Word: trowels
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...Government's Conservative steam roller in defense of Sir Austen. Humorously he twitted Mr. George with "clothing himself in an air of lachrymosity" and basing his accusations upon "necromantic divinations of conversations which never occurred" (i.e., between Briand and Chamberlain). Finally he spread soothing words as with a trowel; implied that the League was none the worse for its "manifestation of human nature not wholly of a happy kind...
Roman Catholics in the U. S. turned their hearts and thoughts with extraordinary awe last week to Rome, meekly regretting their inability to be there in person the day before Christmas to see His Holiness Pius XI close with his own hands, with a jeweled trowel of ivory and silver spread mortar and set stones to close the Holy Door in the portico of St. Peter's magnificent basilica on the 23rd Jubilee Year of the Catholic Church. The closing ceremonies were gorgeous, drawing some 70,000 clerics and lay people into St. Peter's itself, and many thousands...
Before actually closing the Holy Door, the Pope immersed his blessed trowel in holy water, dried it on especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another...
Bishop Manning, with a silver trowel in his hand, strode down the aisle in swishing panoply until he confronted an enormous block of golden Poughkeepsie granite propped up in the south end of the Cathedral by a block and tackle. Trustee George W. Wickersham described how, in the pit prepared for the stone, lay a copper box, 18 inches long, lined with tin, filled with relics of the Church, lists of contributors, newspapers, American coins. Then, while the people repeated the Lord's Prayer, the Bishop traced the sign of the cross upon the rock with his trowel; Architect...
...with short chops, trapped her with deep chops to the baseline, won the set, 6-3. In the next set, she again carried the attack to Miss Wills. Her low, back-bouncing chops on the wet court made the champion scoop up returns as if with a trowel, kept her lumbering from baseline to net until she was breathless. Miss Ryan chopped right, chopped left, chopped off Miss Wills' head...