Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors are asked to attend the initiations in the Sanctum at 7.30 o'clock tonight...
...month all the fellows would chip in and we would buy a keg"--the Major chuckled to think of this old-time deviltry--"We used to raise the roof. Did you ever hear about Charley--S. M. Charley '07? One night we had to take the door to the Sanctum of its hinges and carry him home on it. Yes, indeed, those were the days...
Shortly after a group of Harvard Lampoon graduates had moved to New York and in 1883 founded a decorous humorous publication called Life, a Wall Street office boy arrived at their sanctum with a sketchy cartoon. He was the sort of office boy the editors of Life wanted to encourage-a hard working, impoverished Boston gentleman. The editors of Life gave Charles Dana Gibson $4 for his cartoon...
...last scene centers in the private sanctum of the Gold Eagle Line, 1906. Here one sees plushy opulence indirect and each visitor must enter through a golden Arc de Trlomphe, from which dangles a heavy medallion. Young Guy comes gleefully in to tell his hated failure that the scuttled ship has been said vaged, and the crime thereby disclose Gold Eagle tries to reason, but failling that he invokes the Deity to descend upon on this wayward Absalom. At the dramatic moment, Heaven responds with a beautifully-handled earthquake, in which father and son perish as the Gold Eagle...
...bells are connected with the Rindge Fire Station and the Apted sanctum. Whether automatic sprinkler systems have been installed in the newly renovated Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy Halls it has not been possible to ascertain. The gongs not only serve to give a general alarm of fire, but also serve effectively to locate the hydrants...