Word: chapels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vatican event: the much-discussed third session of the world Synod of Bishops, which convened at week's end for a month of debate on church issues. Indeed, the Hungarian primate was seated at the Pope's right when Paul VI opened the synod in the Sistine Chapel...
...fighting with inmates?and were completely outnumbered. At the time well under 100 guards were on duty in the 55-acre compound to supervise the 2,250 prisoners. Moving swiftly, the convicts rushed through three of the quadrangular cell blocks (see cut) and set fires in six buildings. The chapel, prison school and machine shop were completely gutted. Quickly producing knives, pipes, baseball bats and makeshift spears fashioned from scissor blades and broom handles, the inmates captured guards and civilian employees for hostages...
...opposite extreme is the Middlesex County House of Correction in Massachusetts. Since he took over two years ago, County Sheriff John Buckley has turned the chapel into a gym, encouraged a black studies program (5% of the 300 inmates are black, as are 5% of the guards), moved his office into the prison and learned almost all his prisoners' first names. He hired two lawyers to give the inmates legal advice and turned the sheriff's house over for inmate use, including overnight visits with families...
...hundred eighty years ago, at a time when Harvard students were officially ranked by their social position in "the Dignity of one's Familie," a listing that determined order of chapel seating, class room recital and serving oneself at table, two fledgling Boston Brahmins decided to make the elite even more clearly defined and started a club named after their favorite food, pig. Social discretion changed the name from Pig Club to Porcellian Club, and with the Porcellian Club began the most Socially, with a capital "S", exclusive club system in the country...
Little Gray Lady. That boast could be made about Glamis Castle alone if the Gazetteer's listings are to be taken on faith. Within those walls, for instance, are the ghosts of a little gray lady who appears now and then in the chapel, a pair of 15th century noblemen damned to play dice forever in the castle tower, someone who used to whip bedclothes off sleepers, and a woman without a tongue who runs across the park every night pointing in dumb anguish to her wounded mouth...