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...which has long out-Romanized the Romans. Said its monthly bulletin Ave: "Good for the Dean! . . . Perhaps we shall now be able to say our beads in the Cathedral without interruption. The last time we ventured to use our rosary in one of the unfrequented chapels behind the high altar, a verger quickly approached and asked if we had seen the lacquer cupboards which the King of Siam had given to the Cathedral. We felt duly rebuked for our excess of devotion...
...perfectly true that the present system of high-pressure football thrown on the altar of the golden calf, is not an ideal one, either from the general standpoint of sportsmanship, or from the point of view of the players. Nevertheless, it is equally true that the system has advantages, that it permits a greater expansion of lesser sports, and that in any case, it will not be altered until the Athletic Association places all sport on a sound financial basis. If and when the football system goes, West Point, since it is an unsuitable match for Harvard from the standpoint...
...paws and head were returned to the owners in a bag. Once (in reality, three times, says Biographer Woolf in a note) Flush was so kidnapped by these racketeers. Everybody, including Mr. Browning, advised Miss Barrett to refuse to pay ransom, sacrifice Flush on the altar of law & order. Miss Barrett indignantly refused, went herself to beard the chief racketeer in his den, finally got Flush back at an exorbitant price...
Bohemia has built a beautiful lake in its Grove. Sculptor Haig Patigian designed the altar at one extremity of this lake, which is an heroically shaped Owl-the Club's insignia ("Weaving spiders come not here"). Here the captured effigy of care is oared from across the lake in a medieval barge, and laid on a funeral pyre, where amidst much colorful ritual, he is cremated, to bother man no more-until next year. He is not buried...
...company of four strangers in Death. That same night in Zubrohlava peasants were about to leave church when a thunderstorm came up, herded them back inside. Lightning struck the church steeple three times. The men stampeded over the women & children going two ways: 1) out, 2) toward the altar rail for God's protection. Twenty-one women and children were trampled to death. Four men who had fought their way to the metal altar rail groveled clutching it. On the third stroke the lightning electrocuted all four...