Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Week after week, in thousands of halls, in darkened rooms over Main Street drugstores, men meet, exchange mystic signs and complicated handgrips. New members are sent upon symbolic journeys through wildernesses of sawhorses and overturned chairs. Old members toll bells and simulate the groans of lost souls, solemnly chant and portentously listen as the initiate promises to keep the secrets of the order or have his throat cut and his tongue pulled out by the roots...
Many join because their fathers belonged. Some join because membership is good for their business or good for their political careers (this is known scornfully as "button Masonry"). More join because they meet the town's best citizens on eye level. Some, perhaps, join out of mere curiosity over the mysterious rites. The majority join just to be with the gang-and are more or less surprised to experience a quite considerable spiritual uplift after they get in. Said a Rutland, Vt. advertising salesman: "There's something gets under your skin at a lodge meeting which makes...
Lucky has told U.S. friends that, somehow or other, he would get back to New York by next New Year's Eve. If they wanted to know where to meet him, let them look in the classified ads of the New York Times for Dec. 31. Meanwhile, last week, the frustrated city boy found it impossible to stay in even stodgy old Rome...
...citizen. In one of Rome's fashionable quarters, he shared a penthouse with his blonde, toothsome, 28-year-old mistress, Igea Lissoni, a former dancer and nightclub worker. Igea attributes her good fortune to the prophecy of a Milan fortuneteller, who two years ago told her she would meet the man of her dreams in Capri. Igea hastened forthwith to Capri, and there met Lucky Luciano, whose vast suite took up half of a floor in the island's best hotel...
Britain's Labor government, locked in dubious battle with the obscure forces of a dollar-exchange crisis, had to turn this week to a more tangible danger. On the decision of his cabinet, King George VI proclaimed a state of emergency to meet a two-week-old strike on the London docks. Not since the General Strike of 1926 had a British government taken such drastic action in a labor dispute...