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...Literally, rocky riding school. It was carved out of a Salzburg hillside to form an area where trained horses performed elaborate steps to music for the amusement of 17th century Archbishop Johann Ernst. Arcades and boxes honeycomb a side wall of solid rock. In 1933 Max Reinhardt used the space for his great production of Goethe's Faust...
...from being representative of American democracy in action, the [State] Department is a honeycomb of bureaucratic regimentation and protocol...
When it comes to scouting each other's positions, U.N. observers probably have the better of it; with air supremacy over the battle lines, their plane crews have charted a growing maze of trenches, bunkers and caves, which now honeycomb almost every Red-held mountaintop and dominating ridge line. On some key peaks, the Reds, who are tireless diggers, have made perimeter entrenchments all the way around the slopes and have apparently built tunnels through from one side to another, in order to shift troops quickly and furnish impregnable shelter against allied bombs and heavy artillery. Bunkers with alternate...
White Elephant. In Chicago, Hilton ran into tradition of another kind. For years the $30 million Stevens, world's biggest (3,000 rooms) hotel, had stood like a half-filled honeycomb as a monument to the folly of its builders. The Army used it as a barracks at the beginning of the war, and in 1943 Chicago Contractor Stephen Healy bought the white elephant and caught Hilton's eye by making it pay in the war boom that was suddenly filling all hotels. But when Hilton began to bargain for the Stevens, he met his match in Healy...
Take a Small Box. What the bee hunter needs first of all, says Edgell, is a small, double-chambered, glass-windowed box with a hinged lid ("One's first task is to catch a bee"). In the box he places an empty honeycomb which he fills with sugar syrup just before he goes into action...