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...convicted males to eight months' imprisonment, imprisoned their eight female accomplices for six months and assessed upon them costs and a fine of 100 francs ($4) each. Since several of the defendants were of more than modest wealth, and since Mme. Mesmin was not ousted from her sanctum at Bordeaux, the persistence of the cult seemed scarcely threatened. Significantly Mme. Mesmin came originally from Lyons, where, in the words of J. K. Huysmans: "Satanism still flourishes, and every heresy pullulates and is green...
Late yesterday afternoon the managing editor came into the Sanctum, where we were lying on the couch, busily doing nothing. "Are you asleep?" he asked...
...rough spots may seem smoother from the distance; the adventure of journalism may seem more dramatic and thrilling than actually justified, the social side--the CRIMSON dances, admitted by Lampoon men to be the best in college, the bridge, the teas, the hours of idle conversation in the Sanctum--may assume an unwanted glow. The ex-editor may, in short, be a sentimental idiot. But there are many such idiots, enough to have filled the CRIMSON ranks in the past; enough po doubt, to fill them in the future. It is not necessary to exhort undergraduates...
...Manhattan three years ago, Dr. Norris attracted attention by predicting from the pulpit of John Roach Straton, amidst wild gesticulations, that "within one hour" the sin-steeped city would be demolished. The man Mr. Chipps, whom Norris destroyed, had come into his sanctum, the church-study, to dissuade Dr. Norris from attacking his friends...
...Italian press. Well might Signor Mussolini sneer. When attempts were made by the pre-Fascist regime to curb his reckless individualism as editor of II Popolo d'ltalia, he responded to restraint by purchasing a supply of bombs and hurling them when assaults were made upon his editorial sanctum. If Italian editors of today are less resourceful, they are like to smart for their lack of vigor. . . . At present the bombs of Mussolini's youth find their counterpart in dangers which he deliberately courts, as though to keep his nerves steeled against Fate. When a group of admirers...