Word: genuflecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent audience for a group of Italian bishops. His Holiness, who served as an NCO with an Italian medical unit during World War I, spied the Rt. Rev. Arrigo Pintonello, chief chaplain of the Italian army, wearing a general's insignia. As the bishop prepared to genuflect and kiss the papal ring, the Pope stepped up smiling, saluted, reported in: ''Sir, Sergeant Roncalli, at your command...
...Genuflect to Paris. The person who understands best how American women want to look is a shy Manhattan designer named Claire McCardell. Says she: "Clothes may make the woman, but the woman can also make the clothes. When a dress runs away with the woman, it's a horror." Designer McCardell speaks with authority, for she started the casual American Look. Even among fashion editors, who genuflect to Paris before every deadline, she is considered unique. "Claire started the feeling for Americana," says Vogue's Babs Simpson. Agrees Diana Vreeland of Harper's Bazaar: "She gave...
...within each party have vastly different views as to what their attitudes should be toward, for example, Dwight Eisenhower. Illinois' Republican Candidate Richard Vail thinks his constituents are against Ike. Says he: "If they want their Congressman to go down to Washington for no other purpose than to genuflect every time Ike speaks, they've got the wrong man." In Washington State, when asked if G.O.P. Representative Thor Tollefson planned to attend the President's McNary Dam dedication, an aide replied: "Hell no, Thor doesn't want Ike to run on his coattails...
...advance and custom-made. Upperclassmen eat in baronial halls, may sit under imposing chandeliers or by an imported Burgundian fireplace, use silver sugar bowls. Yale's Divinity School looks as if it might have been moved up from Williamsburg; the university library looks like a cathedral ("Must I genuflect?" a bemused visitor once exclaimed); its main power plant is clothed in stone to look like a Gothic tower...
Once they asked the ambassador to kowtow before the figure of a dragon; the imperial emblem. This struck the Occidentals as an Oriental trick that would somehow signify their subservience. Amherst offered to do so if a mandarin of equal rank would genuflect before a portrait of the British sovereign. "Inadmissible!" snapped the Chinese. Amherst played the idea a bit further. He would kowtow to the Emperor if it were guaranteed that any Chinese ambassador in London would make similar obeisance to the English throne. "Impossible!" snorted the mandarins...