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...Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop's blessing...
...ever it was to any of your progenitors or others." After so ennobling a ceremony observers regretted that they could not banish from memory the gross legend which recounts how King Henry IV (1367-1413) was moved to establish the Order of the Bath. A certain courageous soldier had knelt before the Sovereign to be knighted, but His Majesty, although not squeamish, recoiled at the kneeling man's terrific exudations. Tactful, King Henry IV, is said to have thereupon declared: "This brave fellow requires rest and refreshment after his prolonged heroism. Take him away and give him a bath...
...this mausoleum, last week, there stood a throng of silent persons. These were relatives of the late Caruso, including his widow Dorothy; come to pay homage to the greatest of their clan. Soon they knelt in an attitude of prayer before the casket. Mrs. Caruso left the crypt, leading by the hand her daughter Gloria II, who was weeping...
...final news that Wu Pei-fu had actually become a bonze brought forth in the Peking press a grim description of his initiation: 1) The hour chosen was midnight, at which time the whole assembly of the monastery knelt in its Temple; 2) The crux of the ceremony was to burn deep into the shaved head of Wu Pei-fu nine brands, each the width of a man's thumb, and serving to remind him of his nine vows as a Buddhist priest; 3) The branding was made endurable by covering his scalp (except on the spots...
Without parading their identity, Major John A. Warner and his wife, Mrs. Emily Smith Warner of Albany, N. Y., joined a group of 500 other pilgrims at the Vatican, and knelt and kissed the hand of Pius XI. Mrs. Warner's father, in whose presidential chances the Vatican is reported to have no interest, was pleased to hear of his daughter's devoutness and, when urged to comment, gently turned the conversation aside, into travel. "Distance doesn't mean much to the younger generation," said Governor Smith. "Here am I, past fifty, and it was only...