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Rumors, which began with a mysterious long-distance call to a Boston newspaper, that the Ibis, traditional and sacred bird of the Harvard Lampoon, was stolen from the Sanctum of the Lampoon Building Wednesday evening, found credence in the admission by Paul Brooks '31, President of the organization, that it was missing yesterday morning...
...foolishly enough, penalized him for it. "Copey" was fifty before he was granted even an associate professorship; sixty-five before the grudging doctors made him a full professor. But the men who met him in his classroom in old Sever Hall, or climbed the stairs to his bachelor's sanctum in Hollis, and the hordes who poured into the Union whenever it was announced that "Copey" would read knew better than the faculty. They knew that "Copey" was one of the supreme teachers of their generation. Men may quarrel over the explanation, but they agree upon the fact...
...Trumbull Steel Co. sat around a table and wondered where they could get money enough to put their wavering company firmly on its feet. They had been sitting for a long time without finding a way out of their difficulties when, miraculously, a taL stranger walked into their sanctum, slapped down on the table a $20,000,000 check, said, "There is my letter of introduction...
...Bank of England, in his quiet sanctum, Montagu Collet Norman sat one morning last week, and probably he stroked in anxious meditation his courtly Vandyke beard. Invisibly the battle of gold was on. It was a question whether to call out the ordinary reserves?whether to raise the rediscount rate of the Bank of England...
Through the double glass doors of the White House, past the expressionless Negro footmen, into the ultimate social sanctum of the land, there passed one afternoon last week a slender, middle-aged invited guest wearing an afternoon dress of capri blue chiffon, a grey coat trimmed in moleskin, a small grey hat, moonlight grey hose, snakeskin slippers. She was well pleased to be there; to be greeted by the First Lady; to see Mrs. Good, the Secretary of War's wife, pouring the tea, and Mrs. Attorney-General Mitchell conversing politely. Also present were a Mrs. Bacon...