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...frayed but punctilious sergeant; a rough highland boy, with teeth like a trap and a knife, a yellow tunic and yellow kilt; a harp with "I am the Queen of Harps" graved on its front pillar, the Red Hand of Ulster beneath and the maker's and singers' boasts beneath that?these are also in the story...
...chapel", he said, "is carved out of the rock cliff. It is about 40 feet square and every inch of the walls is carved with Buddhist figures. In the center there is a natural rock pillar which supports the chapel, on which are carved large elephant heads facing the four corners of the earth. As the elephant is not a native animal to China, Indian or Buddhist influences were firmly entrenched in China in the 5th century...
...member of the class of 1925 barely escaped death yesterday afternoon when a large piece of the capital of the pillar on the southwest corner of the Widener Library fell with a crash on the board walk below. The falling piece was approximately a foot and a half square at the start, but was broken by a projecting ledge on its descent and turned outward from its course...
...became known that one of Rector Parks' parishioners was attending services at Rector Stires' church. She had been for 50 years-ever since she taught Sunday School-a pillar of Rector Parks' church. She had given the church its magnificent Byzantine entrance, a memorial to her husband. She had endowed the church's hospital. She was-is-Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.* Whether Mrs. Vanderbilt will transfer her allegiance is a matter of conjecture. Rectors Parks and Stires are good friends, the former having ofttimes supported the latter for a bishopric, notably in the election which resulted...
...earth was the largest, and in fact the only independent body. The sun and moon, mere lamps for the convenience of humanity, passed round and under the earth, sometimes through great caverns and archways, sometimes between the legs of a giant turtle, on whose back rested a huge pillar which supported everything. The difficulty with this latter theory was that the turtle had to have something to stand on, and whatever the turtle stood upon had to stand on something else and so on, until even the most complete Noah's ark was exhausted before anything definite could possibly...