Word: rigors
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Twelve gates admit respectable pedestrians to the cloistered precincts of the Yard, and day and night eleven of the twelve stand open, to all appearances guarded with no extraordinary rigor. Not so the twelfth. Religiously the watchdogs of the college swing shut at stroke of six the iron portals that front the Holden Chapel between Lionel and Mower Halls, and make them fast for the night with monolithic chain and padlock...
...machine with him, at least in the eastern part of the state. In the western part the Mellons may swing the organization for Pepper. But Vare hopes to take compensation out of Pinchot's vote. He declared: "I shall be opposed by two candidates who would maintain the extreme rigor of the Volstead law. Enforcement of this law has failed, and it has failed because, in my opinion, the law is not enforceable in its present form...
...masters of popular destiny could behave a little less boorishly, not to say stupidly. Surely they know that what storm she could brew in the tea pots of the pleasant circles where she would visit could not do half the damage of this greater storm raised by their own rigor. It is indeed unfortunate that the Department of State must be so unpleasant to such a good looking lady...
...Prince, on the other, is schooled in rigor. Forced to travel about the world, enduring all sorts of discomforts in the interests of Empire, David Windsor, Prince of Wales, was not overcome by the fact that the train which was to have taken him last week from Chile to Buenos Aires stuck in a snowdrift on the Andes Mountains and had to turn back to Los Andes. Nor was he more than slightly startled when, as he strolled the streets of that town, bored by the oppressive company of his persona] detective, he saw a rumdum reel...
Architect Goodhue, with his partner, Ralph Adams Cram, revolutionized ecclesiastical architecture in the U. S. He gave his life to Gothic. The austerity, the rigor, mocking yet exalting man's puny bones, the grace soaring beyond thought-these he served. He is almost solely responsible for the revival of Gothic in the U. S., now seen in innumerable college buildings, churches, cathedrals, offices, country houses. He built the chapel at West Point, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Russell Sage Memorial at Far Rockaway, N. Y., the permanent buildings of the Panama Exposition. Over 50, he entered...