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More adept than any other at investing its ceremonies with glittery pomp, the Roman Catholic Church lavishly outdoes itself every two years when it stages an international Eucharistic Congress. Last week the 32nd Eucharistic Congress opened in Buenos Aires...
...little town, other scientists converging from other parts of U. S. S. R. swelled the throng to nearly 600. All were there to pay high honor to the wrinkled old man for whom the town once called Koslov was renamed, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, "the Burbank of Russia." With pomp and ceremony the title of Honored Scientist of the Republic was conferred upon Comrade Michurin of Michurinsk...
Tonsillectomy used to be a "kitchen chair" operation. Now in the hands of a throat specialist it entails all the pomp and ceremony of a major operation. At the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, Surgeon David H. Jones related, an interne makes a preoperative examination of the patient's skin, nose, throat, ears, heart, lungs and kidneys. Continued Dr. Jones, "All patients with any suspected involvement, including rise in temperature over 100.4° F., are held for final examination by the Tonsil Supervisor. No patients are operated upon following a recent illness and no female patient is operated upon...
...shot for heroically smuggling Allied soldiers out of territory occupied by the Imperial German Armies. Exactly similar was the work of two French heroines, Louise de Bettignies and Marie Léonie van Houtte. Louise died in a German prison. Last week with all possible Paris pomp Marie was married...
...ordered to play up as biggest news of the week a royal visit to President von Hindenburg by weak-eyed little King Prajadhipok of Siam and his equally short but amply curvesome Queen Rambui Barni. Oscar and the other venerable storks of East Prussia had not seen such pomp since Kaiser Wilhelm's day. Two private cars of the German State Railways sped Their Majesties out from Berlin, across the hated Polish Corridor (an emotional barrier not in the least inconveniencing the King and Queen) and on to the snug East Prussian station of Freystadt where they were...