Word: catacomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the case led him into conflict with Professor Moriarty, beetling-browed ruler of London's underworld who held his councils in a fearsome catacomb, Sherlock blandly donned his double-peaked cap and walked into the Professor's ambush-a lethal chamber. He smashed the single lamp, deluded his captors by leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved...
...book itself is, as a criticism, unimportant. Mr. Thaw has attempted to illuminate the lack of morals of the late Mr. White rather than his professional achievements. But through the coils and crumples of the narrative, through a catacomb of names, dates, documents arranged with the precise disorder of total recall, shapes emerge like people seen for a minute through a lifting mist, and one has a glimpse of the diversions of one of the most brilliant and perhaps the most debauched of U. S. architects...
...Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, were said to have removed all doubt that both Saints, Peter and Paul, died in Rome and were buried near the Basilica of San Sebastiano, sometimes called "Basilica Apostolorum", on the Appian Way. The diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek for "down in the hollow...
...Pines near a Catacomb...