Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Vatican Palace, the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinal Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte . . . will celebrate a solemn mass of the Holy Ghost. The Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals will attend it wearing their woolen robes with plain rochets and capes of violet silk with ermine...
Since October 1, 1938, when Newspaper Guildsmen walked out on city-wide strike, no daily newspaper has been published in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a coal-mining and silk-weaving city whose retail stores serve about 300,000 persons. Deprived of their No. 1 advertising medium, the five biggest Wilkes-Barre stores have distributed a weekly "Shoppers Bulletin" to 73,000 homes. (Total circulation of the dormant evening News, Times-Leader and morning Record: 73,000.) Smaller stores have combined to publish a 24-page tabloid "Buyers Guide" with about 53.000 circulation, which also takes paid classified ads. By agreement...
...dark, crenelated St. James's Palace slipped separate, silent groups of Saudi Arabs in crisp brown silk robes and white headdresses, Yemen Arabs in turbans and black-and-green cloaks, Egyptians in scarlet fezzes, Jews in business suits, British diplomats in morning coats and silk toppers. On the eve of the "Conference" they split into three camps (Jews, "Defense" Arabs, "Mufti" Arabs), shut themselves into separate chambers and let the British diplomats shuttle...
...when Cardinal Pacelli declared the Pope truly dead, a new order, rigidly governed by ancient protocol, was in force in the Vatican. Cardinal Pacelli, now Camerlengo (Chamberlain) of the Holy Roman Church, was given the Ring of the Fisherman from the Pope's finger. Placed in a red silk bag, the ring was later broken, as symbol that there was an interregnum in the affairs of the Church. Aside from Cardinal Penitentiary Lauri, in charge of the Pope's funeral, and Camerlengo Pacelli, administrator of the Church and head of the approaching conclave of Cardinals, all papal offices...
...similar scene took place in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Sergei Koussevitzky's famed Boston Symphony had announced a "concert extraordinaire." Manhattan concertgoers could see that something was up when 18th-Century ushers led them to their seats. When Boston's stiff-necked orchestra appeared in silk stockings and periwigs with Conductor Koussevitzky himself got up as Franz Joseph ("Papa") Haydn, they began to catch on. Without batting an eye, poker-faced Koussevitzky led his men through Haydn's rococo whimsey, bowed gravely, pinched out his candle and left the stage...