Word: angeling
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...Paris where he now spends the greater part of every year, William Nelson Cromwell is known for his snowy chrysanthemum-like hair and the original manner of tying his neckties. He has also the distinction of being the financial angel of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Cromwell built the chevaliers a beautiful little pink marble museum near their palace on the Quai d'Orsay. Commander Cromwell be came a Grand Officer of the Order with a large plaque to pin on his dress coat. Among his other benefactions may be listed the American Braille Press for the blind...
Well-paced, well-played. The Silent Witness, adapted from a play of the same name which ran in Manhattan last year, is a high grade stock product, with no undue pretensions. Good shot: Miss Nissen, who made her stage debut as an angel but has since concentrated upon demimondaines, sneering at her lover (Bramwell Fletcher) with such unpleasant petulance that, despite her beauty, spectators can condone his violence...
...capital to the right shows that dramatic scene in which the three Marys arrive at the tomb of Christ to find him gone. The angel is seen pointing into the tomb to further emphasize the fact of Christ's resurrection. On the left face of the capital, the figure of a sleeping guard is carved, while on the right the third Mary leans forward the better to see into the sepulchre...
...Christ in Glory" is depicted on the capital at the left of the doorway. Sitting within a mandorla supported by the four attributes of the apostles, the lion, ox, eagle, and angel, Christ raises both hands in benediction. The two apostles on the left face of the capital carry the resurrection cross, while the two disciples are on the right face...
...capital to the right of the large Madonna and Child statue, represents on its principal face the angel appearing to Zacharias. The priest of the course of Abia is officiating at an altar covered with a cloth. In his right hand he holds a censer, in the left a book, but both objects are now much broken. Gabriel, with arms, stands before him. On the left face of the capital, Elizabeth, accompanied by a handmaiden or possibly a youth, is represented. On the right face, a genre scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer...