Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON will welcome back its Alumni at an after-game puncheon this afternoon in the sanctum at 14 Plympton Street. Almost a hundred ex-editors and their families are expected to gather round the punch bowl to renew old acquaintances and to see how the CRIMSON has carried on in their absence. Tea will be served for those who have deserted the tradition...
Throughout the amazing interior is a collection of museum pieces and antiques the result of an unfortunate habit of 'Poon alumni of storing their attic overflows in the Sanctum. A fine suit of medieval Japanese armor stands at the south window of the Great Hall, and has occasionally been donned by the President during police raids. The window itself contains pieces of 14th century stained glass from the Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England. Across the room in a serious Frisian grandfather clock of the 17th century, and the Elizabethan mantlepiece next to it has not been dusted since...
...chandelier is 16th century Spanish wrought iron, like the crane supporting the lantern over the front door. Seven thousand Delft tiles bearing pictures of windmills and Dutch barmaids completely cover the walls of the Sanctum Lobby. No two of these are alike, the Poonsters are told. Not all of the relics are imported, however. The walls are littered with drawings by F. G. Attwood, James Montgomery Flagg, Gluyas Williams, Larz Anderson, and other ex-editors. Their carved signatures may be read in the oaken dining table...
From the same punch-bowl that has refreshed celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve a new arsenic-laden punch to the leading murderesses and their accomplices in "Arsenic and Old Lace" at 4 o'clock this Friday in the Bow Street Sanctum. Guests who prefer elderberry wine must bring their...
...stands will be full of cheering crowds and the players will be full when the Crime meets the 'Poon at Soldiers Field this afternoon in their traditional game of baseball. A costume tea party in honor of the Ibis will be held in the 14 Plympton Sanctum Sanctorum at 2:30 o'clock, an hour before game-time. Thence and thenceforward the rivals will proceed via the Ibister's Transport System, especially provided for the occasion...