Word: altar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still abed. Few were the early risers who saw, one morning last week, four automobiles speeding by a devious route-past the Temple of Vesta, the Palatine, the Circus Maximus and the Coliseum-to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, which is the cathedral of the Diocese, its high altar reserved to the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. A small party of ecclesiastics got out of the motors, entered the church...
Spade bearded Bishop Cherontie of Constanta beamed with pride, announced that Ileana's candlestick would stand on the Cathedral's high altar, its candles never to be snuffed...
...Gothic chapel, those who had not been there before read the inscription above the door: "The Way of Peace." Inside the vaulted, half-underground chapel they stared curiously at the tombs of Woodrow Wilson, Admiral Dewey, Associated Pressman Melville E. Stone. They sat down in, armchairs facing the altar and their vice-chairman and secretary, the only ones present wearing canonicals, Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson of Chicago and the Rev. Charles Laban Pardee...
...remember as a small boy going with my father to the Atlantic Garden and listening to the lady musicians. . . . My sister and I were given chocolate to drink, and huge slices of cake, while the elders drank their beer. . . . When I was ten years old, I became an altar boy. ... I practically lived in the fire engine house, . . . rode on the hose cart. . . . Gifted with a good loud voice, I was paid to read off the ticker tape on the night of the Sullivan-Corbett fight. . . . We used the bowsprit and rigging of ships as a gymnasium . . . learned to swim...
...varsity line-ups, despite physical handicaps. Class football seems the best medium for athletic expression for the light weights, because it emphasizes what little attention we now pay to the ideal of "sport for sport's sake" and does not add fuel to the flames which burn at the altar of the God of football. The Yale News