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...just over 50,000 circulation.) It was Editor Moley, writing to the President at that time, who uttered words which would fit perfectly in Publisher Astor's mouth: "Friendship for you as a great warrior and chief and a deep sharing of political ideals are precious...
...Century. Guarded day and night by six stalwart carabinieri, its three weeks' ostension last year drew 1,500,000 pilgrims from the ends of the earth. In Cadouin, France, is another Holy Shroud, venerated since the 12th Century, and at Echmiadzin, Armenia, is a Holy Coat which, too precious to be seen, has been sealed beneath a pulpit for 1,600 years...
...important, for the first time in two years a U. S. Secretary of State and a Foreign Minister of Japan exchanged direct communications on the subject of improving relations between the two nations. The text of both these diplomatic nosegays, sent month ago but published only last week, said precious little at great length, but did contain one significant sentence each. Wrote Foreign Minister Koki Hirota...
...took three more days of Buddhist rites behind the locked gates of the Red City to complete the ceremony. On the fourth day a battalion of mandarins led in musicians and the bearers of the royal insignia. The new Queen, her hair elaborately wound about a tiara encrusted with precious stones, received the Imperial seal and the golden book. Finally she arose and bowed her forehead to the floor three times, in the traditional Chinese kowtow (pronounced ker-toe) of thanks...
...west to the high Sierras, where their descendants still live. A few yellowed pages of Spanish historians shed some light on the Coclée culture before it was destroyed. The Coclés had several distinct castes. Aris- tocrats painted and tattooed themselves, wore few clothes, as many precious ornaments as they could. The women supported their breasts on a pair of golden bars which were carried by thongs over the shoulders. For protection the fighters had golden helmets, golden elbow-length cuffs, golden greaves. For arms they had clubs, spears, arrows and darts which in the air made...