Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church and head of the approaching conclave of Cardinals, all papal offices and appointments technically lapsed after the death of Pius XI. All the Cardinals, even the Penitentiary and the Camerlengo, at once doffed the distinguishing mark of their rank, the short, capelike mantelletta, wearing simply the white mozzetta or small cape, the rest of their attire violet for mourning...
Garbed by the Penitentiaries in white soutane, red cape and hood, the body of Pius XI was raised upon a velvet and gold catafalque, carried in a slow cortege to the Sistine Chapel. There, dwarfed by the surging figures of Michelangelo's vast Last Judgment, the Pope lay in state while dignitaries of the Church, diplomats. Crown Prince Umberto (for the Italian royal family) and Count Galeazzo Ciano (for Mussolini) paid homage. Next day the Pope's body was carried into St. Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square...
Best dog in the show, for the second year in succession: Exquisite Model of Ware, a four-year-old black, white and tan cocker spaniel bitch. Most popular exhibit of merchandise : a gasproof kennel brought out in ''Crisis Week," in which any movement of the dog operates a bel lows under the floor, forces fresh air through respirators...
...country palace, listening to a new symphony by his court Kapellmeister. The stocky, periwigged Kapellmeister himself sat at the harpsichord, bobbing out the rhythm with his head, cuing in an occasional oboe or bassoon with one lace-cuffed hand. Before him peered and labored a score of white-wigged, brocaded musicians. The first oboe closed the music on his stand, blew out his candle, tiptoed from the stage. The second horn followed. One by one, other musicians got up and went out. Soon there were only two violinists left. Together they played the symphony's last note, then rose...
Almost before the candle fumes were cleared, the Boston musicians returned in white pea jackets, and were on their way to town with Composer Louis Gruenberg's modernistic jazz score, Daniel Jazz. The result was hardly enough to shake a Brahmin into a shag, but it was pretty hot stuff for the Boston Symphony...