Word: upending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good repair at Vatican City is the world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks of all necessary...