Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-hour hikes as to his famed diary. For another thing, there was something satisfying in a leisurely look at Boston. Despite the Irish, the Italians, the automobile and the social "philosophy" of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Boston was still Boston. Its church steeples still stood unchallenged by tall buildings. Beacon Hill's decorous cascade of red brick houses still defied time and modern architects. The lion and unicorn of England, which revolutionary mobs had neglected to pull down in the 1770s, still stood atop the old State House...
...takes a man with a diversified course to win possession of the pieces of the puzzle, and to assemble them without guidance is to ask too much of his powers of integration. Browsings in Brattle Street, random windings on Beacon Hill and drives to Concord, Salem, Gloucester, Plymouth and points Capeward, even with the tutorial aid of the Massachusetts Guide Book, will not yield the rounded values which some systematic instruction would give...
...group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian Opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
Winston Churchill, it appeared, might have yet another blaze of glory. A citizen of Margate proposed a skyscraping statue of Britain's great war leader on the white cliffs of Dover, "illuminated day and night." Its beacon: Churchill's cigar...
...aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like Irene Allarie, who bumps her svelte way through a colorful unveiling that is guaranteed to wilt even the stiffest of straw hats among the Summer Theatre...