Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heads jumped and library shook with excitement as the talented Western Union employee disdained the dignity of the revered sanctum. At his finish, cries, of "encore" filled the room, but the youth controlled his enthusiasm and walked...
...house in Gough Square was roofless and gutted, but his extra-size chair and first edition of his dictionary had been rescued. Old Bailey, scene of famous and infamous trials, was partially burned; the Temple, already battered by a dozen bombs, was set aflame; and the Inner Temple, sanctum of British law, had five of its buildings burning at once. Its great Gothic library was reduced to rubble...
Occasionally, the doors slid softly open to admit Harry Hopkins or Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, but even the President's wife and mother kept out of this political sanctum in this sacred hour...
...little changed in 38 years, except for the "beeldings." His outstanding reminiscence of World War I are the riding boots of Kermit Roosevelt which he used to shine. The prosperity of the twenties carried him right into the presidency of Megalopolis, a society of Boston Greeks. In his cubbyhole sanctum Felix treasures the programs of the charity balls he sponsored. He contributed a full $2,000 to the erection of a high school near his home town, and carefully preserves his cancelled checks as living proof of his munificence...
...greatest man of Felix's acquaintance was the late Venizelos, the leading figure in Greek post-war politics. Felix met him in 1923 in a modest New York hotel; and ever since a large, signed portrait of the statesman has filled out the back wall of his sanctum. "A simple man," Felix says of his idol, "but a great brain. Too great for the Greece...