Word: sanctum
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...Alice and the Old Woman again," he said with an air of resignation. "I'll have to barricade myself in the Sanctum for the next twenty-four hours and lie as low as the heel who took those ash trays off the Dunster House tables. I tell you those women will...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 was ordered to take off his hat in the building, refrain from smoking, and to keep out of the Sanctum. Ten years later another subdued youth, James Bryant Conant '14, was obeying the same orders. Others such as Walter Lippmann '10 remained in the running only a short time...
...often that the Vagabond allows such mundane conversation to hold sway in his sanctum but tonight the company was feeling just in that mood. Anyway, the Old Fellow finds it very hard to refuse any wish of his little friends...
...Vagabond retired to the peace of his Sanctum late last evening with mixed feelings: Haile Selassic prays in the mountains.... Italian forces invade Ethiopia.... There's an Oriental sky over the Charles tonight.... London assures Paris; Paris assures London.... Soviet plans to build bath tubs and bakeries for Eskimos.... Roosevelt warns war a potent peril.... Farley designs a new stamp.... Bulgaria foils conspiracy to overthrow King Boris.... Japanese impatient with Nanking.... Women rebel against food prices.... Skirts to be longer this fall.... Stocks fall sharply.... Largest peacetime treasury deficit.... Wheat prices...
...Vagabond lay musing in his Tower last evening and weaving many a journey for his gentle readers he received a call which was as a bucket of water to the fire in his hearth or as an assassin to those warm spirits who occupy his Sanctum in the mellow hours of the evening. It was from one of his superiors--and a voice much too harsh for the peace of his walls--advising the Vagabond to change his ways: To get out into the sun and feel from those deep philosophical thoughts which have darkened his journeys of late...