Word: gantlet
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...with antiques of a quality which made them costly even when bought at auction by an astute namesake of the British Admiralty's famed Samuel Pepys. In the great hall, between gleaming white Corinthian columns, long-dead British Admirals look down from heavily encrusted frames. After running this gantlet, guests arriving for an Admiralty ball admire the graceful, branching staircase, pass on to the drawing room, its walls hung with paintings of the voyages of Captain Cook. The amazing gilded furniture is the cele brated "Fish Set" presented in 1815 as a memorial to Lord Nelson by wealthy John...
...Lwow's Commercial Academy savage young Gentiles formed a double line with clubs in their hands. All Jewish students, even the girls, were forced to run the gantlet, to stagger away with bruised bodies. Jewish passengers were dragged off street cars and clubbed. Somebody threw a bomb into Gmilus Chassodim Synagogue, blew out all the windows...
...quite as free, of course, for only Europeans with invitations would be admitted, and U. S. contributors would be made to run the critical gantlet as usual. But Director St. Gaudens had been impressed by the insistence of Europeans that "the weakest painters brought in by direct invitation would be distinctly better than the best to be had through a jury." He had issued some 250 invitations to painters in 16 countries. At the instance of Mr. Julius Mihalik of the Cleveland School of Art he had invited Hungarian artists for the first time, also adding Norway and Roumania...