Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend of ours came around the other day looking awfully sheepish. He admits right off that he was under the old influence, but that doesn't completely take the ignominy from spending three hours in a Beacon Hill manhole. It might even have been four, for all he knows...
...Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions started from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, ended in musical vigils in Brattle Street, Brookline, Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill. Legend says one session ended in a musical salute to a Harvard president's daughter while she was in labor pains...
Late in the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Briggsy was writing a letter from the Leverett home #n Beacon Street. Jim had just received Back Bay's accolade in Symphony Hall, where he had spoken about "the pattern of freedom, the quality of integrity, and the brand of honor which have been yours-and mine." He was out for a bitter, retrospective walk along the Esplanade, where he and Mary, 20 years ago, had seen his future so clearly, when Briggsy concluded...
...waiting on the table, Vag wondered if the Beacon Street dowager next to him cared whose life was saved with her blood. Funny if it got to some bleeding Muscovite. Curiosity forced him to look down the row of tables at the prone women. He winced. Why were they all clenching their fists? Pain? But they told me . . . Vag looked up into the soft face in the hard white uniform. It surprised him when he saw a black pipe stuck in the crook of his arm and a slow red flow into the bottle. "Open and close your fist...
...nation at war, Holmes has eloquent things to say. He was no stranger to war. Walking down Boston's staid Beacon Street one afternoon in 1861, with his eyes glued to the pages of Hobbes's Leviathan which he had just borrowed from the Athenaeum, he felt a touch on his shoulder. "Holmes," a friend said, "you've got your first lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth." Holmes returned the copy of Leviathan, went off to war and a wound in the throat at Antietam. "As he grew older," writes Biddle, "the thought of war came...