Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primarily respected for its impartiality, tradition has played a leading part in its appeal. Fond Bostonians like to recall its stand behind the old Whig party, its Civil War crusade against slavery, its one-family hereditary editorship through Victorian times, and its ultra-conservative woman editor. Nor will Beacon Hill ever live down the day a Brahmin butler announced to madame "three reporters, and a gentleman from the Transcript...
...ball at golf, too: "I have been hankering to take a shot at the Babe ever since I started playing golf. Anywhere, any time, and for any charity." - Having read Novelist John P. Marquand's best-selling H. M. Pulham, Esquire, which pokes chuckle-humored satire at a Beacon Hill Boston now all but dead, William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, complained: "Of course my experience is limited, but I sincerely hope that Bostonians, especially the women, have not degenerated into the type he describes." A few days later the City Council declared that Author Marquand...
...FIRST great local news for Hub art lovers since John Singer Sargent last walked off Beacon Hill happened this week when Francis W. Dahl, the idol of Twentieth Century Brookline, published his first book. But alas and alack, it doesn't measure up to what the artist is worth. Dahl chose for his first little volume his worst representative works, the "Left Handed Compliments" that greeted Harvard's Herald readers when they returned from their Christmas vacations, written after he had broken his right arm in an auto accident...
...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...
...more). When finished early in 1942 it will house the religious activities of 1,500 Disciples of Christ in two severe, flat-roofed units joined by a two-story bridge across a sunken terrace and a 140-by-120 reflecting pool. And perhaps its sheer 166-foot tower will beacon religious architecture back into the advancing stream of history...