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...distant future it would be giving forth sour, discordant notes, offensive to the sensibilities of future generals. For the State of New York planned to run a new highway through the academy grounds, not far from the chapel and it appeared that the vibration from countless passing motor cars would be gravely detrimental to the pitch and harmony of the organ's music...
Shrewd, he delayed his vacation beyond the usual date, allowing an impression to seep out that he would not leave Sofia this summer. Then, without warning, the royal motor car purred discreetly from palace to railway station. On the platform stood only one official: Premier André Liaptchev...
...Paris last week the priest of the Chapel of St. Christophe, went out on the chapel porch and blessed the array of private motor cars, taxicabs, trucks, motor cycles, bicycles, wagons, drays, trundle-carts waiting there. It was the day of St. Christophe, whose relics are in the chapel. According to legend St. Christophe carried Jesus on his shoulders and has been designated patron saint of travelers and vehicles...
...Assistant Equerry of the Apostolic Palaces was at Milan, Italy, last week on an especial mission to buy a third motor car for His Holiness Pope Pius XI. The smaller of the two motor cars which the people of Milan gave Achille Ratti when in 1922 he was called from being their archbishop to become the Supreme Pontiff has worn out. The Pope has used it effectively in his drives about the Vatican grounds...
...Holiness no longer uses his carriage drawn by a team of brave horses. If so, he has changed his daily regime disclosed last Easter. It was then his custom to set out at 4 p. m. daily for a drive-in his carriage week days, in one of his motor cars Sundays (TIME, April 25). The Vatican equerries apparently now function more as garage attendants than as stable attendants...