Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of these was held in that sanctum of sanctorums known as Agassiz Hall on Friday, and it was a pity that so small a group took those little red and white announcements seriously. At any rate, four Boston Symphony musicians including Jean Lefrane and Alred Zighera plus a pianist, Paul Doguereau, made their appearance and very smoothly and beautifully furnished two-hours of French chamber music, which included the Faure Quintette, Opus 89, the Quartet, Opus 15, and the Ravel Trio in A Minor. To most of those present, including myself, these works were more or less unfamiliar...
...Into the Sanctum. Soon to be unveiled by circumstance, New Jersey Zinc has grown big on strict attention to business and a devout policy of the less said the better. For decades its stockholder reports have been dull, stereotyped affairs with a peek at quarterly earnings; its reams of trade publicity have never given a hint of production, sales or industry position; its prim officers never discuss anything not already in print. The company's practical downtown Manhattan offices are pervaded by a churchlike decorum-everyone looks solemn, all men politely remove their hats when a girl gets into...
...only outsider ever to wiggle into this inner sanctum was a New York Times reporter who in 1938 unearthed a complete ten-year income account and balance sheet from moldy court records. These proved New Jersey Zinc everything it was supposed to be: at the end of depression year 1934, cash and securities totaled $41,691,000, surplus was $29,515,000, total assets $84,218,000. Sales figures were less impressive, ranged from 1926's $26,769,000 to 1932's $7,715,000. But the key to the company's prosperity was the lusty...
...weep. Yes, you have left us too soon, for the scarred lawns are still bleached. Patterns or drab and blue, grimy white and withered ivy, golden steeple against the sky now mark your going, but green and skirted yard will welcome you when you return to our sanctum, Inchball...
...Quadrangle tree by a bunch of 'Cliffe-dwellers, irreproachable Paul and lovable Georgie. Not to mention the blond visionary and the albuminous adolescent and, least as well as last, the warm stone from Washington Square. And the things he had done; the beer he had drunk in the Sanctum in honor of his ancestors who had drunk beer there in honor of their ancestors. There, at 4 a.m., he had quietly wondered what he was; there, at 3 a.m., he had stamped out the conga. On the very piece of furniture which now bore him, under the yellow daguerreotype...