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...point on which constitutional lawyers sharpen their wits is whether a U. S. official is outside his country when he is aboard a U. S. vessel...
Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length...
Finally, in the packjammed Stadium, 20,000 Catholics formed their ranks into a reproduction of a great monstrance (altar vessel to hold the sacred Host). Followed benediction of the Blessed Sacrament by Cardinal Hayes, which was preceded by a radio broadcast by the Pope, speaking in rapid, inaudible Latin and frequently fading out entirely. Later, Catholics learned that Pius XI had said...
...whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda was Hep, a cry of the Crusaders, derived from the Latin for "Jerusalem is destroyed...
...chasubles, monsignori in purple, archbishops, bishops, mitred abbots investments of gold, altar boys in cassocks, nurses in uniforms, school children with bouquets, Knights of Columbus, Knights of St. John, policemen, firemen?20,000 well-drilled Catholics?were to form a Living Monstrance, a reproduction of the sacred altar vessel whose jeweled cross and golden sun rays surround a glass-enclosed clip holding the Consecrated Host. At the centre, garbed in voluminous vestments and wearing pontifical gloves entitling him to bless in the name of the Pope. Cardinal Hayes was to stand, completely surrounded by the body of the Monstrance, people...