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...Bustling about was Monsignor Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Master of the Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved for his virtues, Master Caccia-Dominioni arranges papal audiences, is present at all functions. Proudly he escorted Mussolini upstairs, to the Pope's private library. There Il Duce knelt solemnly, kissed not the toe but the Ring of the Fisherman. They chatted 55 minutes, which was considered something of a record...
After his long devotions Laborer Talbot would go about his long day's work. His free time he spent in further prayer; Sundays he knelt at all the morning masses, and returned for afternoon and evening devotions. Cocoa, tea, bread comprised his diet. If friends persuaded him to eat more he expiated by fasting. His charities were even more secret than his pious practices. He managed to subsist on six shillings ($1.50) a week before the War, ten shillings after. The rest of his small wages went to the poor, to a Chinese mission and to the training...
...exchange the German mark rose approximately to par* last week for the first time since last May. During the July crisis, when President Hans Luther of the Reichsbank flew like a distracted June bug from Berlin to London to Paris to Basle seeking funds (TIME, July 20), the mark knelt at a low for the year...
While the last of these details was being haggled out, Hyderabad's two princes knelt for more than 30 minutes before propped up pictures of their brides. With aching knees they rose at last. Crown Prince Azam Jah was married to Caliph's Daughter Princess Durri Chehvar, 18. Prince Moazzam Jah espoused Caliph's Cousin Princess Hadice Nilufer, 16. Both weddings were double, a civil marriage by the local British consul and a religious service by His Holiness who was said to have remarked, "Do you know I have never performed a marriage before...
...Army kick-off and was downed on the Yale 22-yd. line. Lassiter got up but an Army end who had tried to tackle him did not. He, Richard Brinsley Sheridan,* of Augusta, Ga., lay motionless, sprawled on his back. The Army trainer ran out from the sidelines, knelt beside Sheridan. Then two cadets lifted Sheridan onto a stretcher and carried him off the field. The game continued and ended...