Word: sanctums
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...hilarious young men with curiously mottled skin. They shook hands violently with everyone in the room, then demanded to see the Minister of Agriculture, C. Argetoianu. "My God!" screamed the Minister's secretary, "Lepers! Unclean! Unclean!" Bravely he stationed himself before the door of his chief's sanctum while panic-stricken clerks and minor officials, overturning chairs and tables, stampeded to the outer air. Prudent Minister Argetoianu remained behind his desk while the piebald lepers shouted maledictions at the government, protested at the food and living conditions in Rumania's state lazaretto at Largeana, from which they...
...ever had his hat ordered from his head by M. Danguy in the fencing room will ever forget it. And those who have absently whistled a tune in the same sanctum will remember that such an exhibition of contentment is a breach of fencing etiquette. It was in the observance of such by-laws of his game that M. Danguy made himself known as much as in his ability to give to others something of his own skill. He will be missed by those who knew him, and their good wishes follow him to his retirement...
...president of the Advocate, and it will be in harmony with the general architecture of the University. A plaque of the Advocate Pegasus done by Frederick Allen, the well-known sculptor who did the five pediments of the New York Country Courthouse, was exhibited at the dinner. The new sanctum will be designed to accord with this reinterpretation of the Advocate symbol...
...million dollars; but austere, reserved, patrician "Mr. Morgan" quietly arranged the Anglo-French loan of a half-billion dollars in 1915. It is said that the Allies wanted to borrow a round billion at that time; but Mr. Morgan led the British fiscal representative, Lord Reading, into his sanctum, and thoughtfully observed: "Reading, I wouldn't ask a billion if I were you. I think you'd best limit the issue to half a billion...
...They met face to face, last week, in the Lateran Palace, an austere and gloomy pile, presented to the papacy 16 centuries ago by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Successive pontiffs resided in the Lateran until removal of the papal residence to Avignon (1309 A.D.). It contains the Sanctum Sanctorum, Chapel, "Mother Church of Christen-dom"; reached by a'flight of steps which no Catholic, not even the Pope, may ascend otherwise than on his or her knees...