Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtyard of St. Damascus came a final disembarkment from the royal motors. Self-conscious reporters in swallowtail coats noted in Their Majesties' party the fascinating brown beard of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, "The Right Hand of II Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno...
There is no sovereign in the world who has so many personal servants as the Pope. In the inner courtyard of St. Damascus this fact was gorgeously demonstrated to little King Vittorio Emanuele and his tall white spouse. Here was a final detachment of the Papal Army, elaborately upholstered Gendarmes in fur busbies, varnished jack boots, flashing sabres. In a knot of red, pink, crimson, purple and white, stood the Grand Master of the Holy Hospice, the Secret Almoner, the Pope's Sacristan, Secret Chamberlains, Knights of the Cape and Sword, Noble Guards, Cardinals, Lay Gentlemen-in-Waiting...
...Harvard Observatory to assist in searching for hitherto unknown records of past Leonid showers. Dr. Fisher, known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman", believes that a great many references to the Leonids exist which have not been found. He has already received notice of a chronicle in Syria, made in Damascus in the twelfth century, and containing astronomical observations as far back as the sixth century. Information has also been received that there are sources in China, and possibly in Japan, Korea, and Russia. Chinese writings are considered of special importance...
...some 6,000 of them felt that they were approaching the goal as they listened to metallurgical discourses of the National Metal Congress held last week at Cleveland, the Foundry City.* Manganese-Molybdenum Steel. Hard and sharp were the Samurai swords of Japan, the Toledo blades of Spain, the Damascus cutlery of the Levant-because their steels contained small amounts of molybdenum. However, the presence of molybdenum was accident. Mineralogists did not recognize it as a metal until the 1790's. Metallurgists did not introduce its hardening properties to a steel alloy until very recently. Pure iron...
...likely kindling place for a Holy War. There tall, sagacious, tortoise-spectacled Ibn Saud is Sultan, and King of the Hejaz to boot. He alone has sufficient prestige to galvanize and weld Moslem tribesmen of the Near East into mass enthusiasm for an Islamic pogrom. Last week despatches from Damascus (French Syria) told that 20,000 Arabs had paraded through the bazars shouting: "Long live the unity of Arab peoples under the Sultanship of Ibn Saud...