Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was a long line of people in waiting yesterday morning at the Park Theatre to buy tickets for Patti next week. Several Harvard men appeared among these devotees at the shrine of La Diva...
...found within her closest shrine...
...iconoclasm, a profound respect for effectiveness, a deep admiration for the man who amounts to something. This does not apply of course to all Westerners, but to that particular and perhaps representative class whose characteristic is independence carried to an extreme. This man will not worship at the shrine of birth, breeding, or refinement, but he will render hearty homage to an energetic worker, an able leader, a manly man. Before the end of his course he will probably appreciate the value of literary pursuits, and even if he does not devote himself assiduously to the task of remedying...
...might have been seen making his way up Washington Street at a pretty rapid pace. It was the noble Fitz-Clarence De Smythe, and he was revolving a great project in his heart. In common with the other sons of '84, De Smythe was an adorer at the shrine of Miss Evangeline Montmorenci, who dwelt at the palatial mansion No. 1884 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., U. S. A.; but now his rivals had departed to their respective homes; for the whole winter recess he had a clear field; and his breast swelled with pride and two overcoats as he thought...
...slight, of transmitting the memory of their heroism to future generations. Has she shown the proper spirit on the day when of all others some fitting token should be placed upon these tablets? Has she no time to pause a moment to offer up a few flowers at the shrine of their martyrdom, a few brief words of consecration within those hallowed walls...