Word: vestment
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...first began to work together in 1929 when Mr. Giannini, anticipating his retirement, looked for a leader to replace him. Mr. Walker, he thought, possessed prestige as well as brilliance and was a man of broad enough vision to carry on the dreams of the branch banking and in vestment empire which Transamerica rep resented. Soon after Mr. Giannini retired friction became apparent. Friends of Mr. Walker think that when, in the early part of 1930, he became fully familiar with the task ahead of him, he was aghast at the true situation, and has since labored tirelessly to turn...
...fourth estate," proud in its antecedents, jealous for its membership, mighty in affairs. Actually he binds his toga with shoelace and a piece of string, and now and then he must take to his heels with some irate mere first-or second-estater grabbing at the frayed vestment...
...Emperor Frederick III in Vienna Cathedral, ordered a year ago by the Germanic Museum, is now completed and will soon be shipped. This is one of the richest and most decorative pieces of flamboyant Gothic sculpture of the second half of the fifteenth century. The Emperor, in gorgeous vestment, with crown, imperial orb and sceptre, is standing under a vaulted canopy the front of which contains a relief of St. Christopher with the Christ child. Around the Emperor are grouped the emblems of his sovereignty and coats of arms of the Empire, the Hapsburg dynasty. Upper and Nether-Austria, Styria...
...Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, slowly paraded into Church House at Westminister.† With him was the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Anglican Archbishop of York and Primate of England; and behind them entered 300 high dignitaries of their Church of England, gay in vestment, sombre in feature...
Every year the supporters of the Gallery are rewarded for their in vestment with a free lottery of selected paintings. Mr. Swift chose the only Sargent in the Gallery, a portrait valued at $15,000. The second name was Charles Clifton, President of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, who chose Heavy Weather, a marine painting by Irving Wiles. The third, James Parmelee of Washington, acquired Lilian Hale's Spring Reverie...