Word: sacrosanctity
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...Five," progressive runners-up to the sacrosanct Bank of England, are, of course, the Midland Bank, with 850 branches; Barclays Bank (richest of the "Five") with 1,000 branches; Lloyds Bank, with 1,650; the National Provincial Bank, 1,125; and the Westminster Bank, 926. The value of the premises is estimated...
With those who look with a critical eye upon him and all his actions, seeing the superficial eccentricity and overlooking the well-measured ability within the man, although he has long passed from those semicircles of desks and the sacrosanct precincts of the Chamber devoted to the deliberations of the Foreign Relations Committee, and although he passed through and beyond the U. S. Embassy at the Court of St. James's, the contemptuous sobriquet still sticks...
...Haven, Conn., earlier in the fall, when the walls of a new dormitory authorized by the Yale Corporation started unexpectedly to rise, hard by sacrosanct old Connecticut Hall on the Yale campus, great was the shout that went up (TIME, Nov. 3, Nov. 17). Faculty, alumni, undergraduates blended their voices in the outcry: "Stop it! Tear it down! Hush hall!" Moved, the Corporation ordered that the walls cease to rise. Committees met and met, discussing what was wise and proper to be done. Dr. James R. Angell, Yale's diplomatic chief executive, went hither and thither, explaining, dissuading...
There seems no immediate probability that the sacrosanct wall of the Metropolitan Opera House will echo to the strident syncopations of U. S. jazz. This in spite of the fact that Otto H. Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, has invited Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, famed composers of jazz, to submit a jazz opera for production in the very throne room of music. Irving-Berlin would "give his right arm to do it," but feels technically unfit. Jerome Kern, who refused to try an opera six years ago, favors the scheme, whether he or another carries...
Smooth gliding Hispano-Suizas, Minervas, gracefully imperious Renaults, the more conventional Rolls-Royces have begun again to deposit their precious burdens at the sacrosanct portals of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, of the Auditorium, Chicago. Venerable gentlemen in the prosperous-seeming splendor of Prince Alberts and silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make...