Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennant snapped: "I'm sick and tired of being followed!" A news blackout followed. Across the moat of privacy, reporters had Slim pickings: The only tidings that drifted out from the inner sanctum: a picnic had been called off because of rain-and U.S. Crooner Eddie Fisher had sent the princess a special recording of Happy Birthday...
Perhaps the building's most striking feature is its fine collection of Delft tiles. Each white and blue square is incorporated into intricate patterns which decorate many of the walls and window casements. These tiles are especially prominent on the first floor, and liberally sprinkle the Public Vestibule and Sanctum. Other first floor rooms include the President's office, business office, and the Narthex, a lobby opening into the Sanctum. Besides antiques, the lower quarters display posters and souvenirs gathered through seventy-eight years of publication...
...running according to schedule on the afternoon following his first exam. Mockmouse had surrounded himself in this sanctum with the material necessary to atone for three months of leisure. Late into the night he had bent his pudgy frame over Sanskrit 109. Then at four a.m. he had given up and gone...
...office, at his estate in Bar Harbor, Me., or aboard his yacht Victoria, "J.P." deluges his staff with distinctive yellow-paper memos, has even edited his own obituary" for the paper's files, to say: "[Joseph Pulitzer II's] heart was more at home in the editorial sanctum than in the countinghouse...
...CRIMSON has one of the finest and best equipped plants of any college newspaper in the country and all candidates will have full run of the place with the exception of the mysterious "Sanctum" in which the ... (above) is kept...