Word: pillar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pillar of the Crimson's rugged defense will captain the varsity lacrosse team next season. Al Straus, a junior from Chicago, will be playing his third year of varsity lacrosse...
Sister Nazarena with her asceticism is doing a great service for the whole human race. She puts me in mind of Simeon Stylites the Elder (A.D. 388-459), who sat on top of a soft, pillar for 36 years. The church made a saint...
East Cleveland, Ohio Simeon of Syria (see cut) was the first and most famous of the stylites, or pillar saints, a form of asceticism practiced in the Middle East for six centuries. He started out on a pillar o ft. tall and progressively worked his way up to the soft. column where he lived, on a tiny open platform, for the rest of his life...
...epitome of mid-20th century art" by Architect Philip C. Johnson and as "instant Stonehenge" by the critical Washington Post and Times Herald. The Post last week suggested that one of the slabs carry an epitaph to the shortlived National Recovery Administration (1933-35): "Here lies beneath this pillar grey/The late-lamented NRA/It lived and breathed and had its day/But, thank the Lord, it went away...
Just then Foxy Moxy sidled up. Henny Penny hated Foxy Moxy, who was a successful storm window salesman, stock speculator, and pillar of the community of long-standing. Foxy Moxy had a proposition to make: "Friends, and you are my friends," he said, "suppose that the sky falls--and of course it won't. But if it does, what will we all need? Shelter, that's what. Shelter for ourselves, shelter for our possessions, shelter for our loved ones. And I just happen to have here with me contracts for the latest thing in shelters--Fox Holes, Patent Applied...