Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean of St. Paul's, is the equally Reverend William Foxley Norris, onetime Dean of York, now Dean of Westminster. Twice in the past month Dean Norris, whose hobby is art and who has a nice talent in painting, emerged from the shadow of the Empire's shrine into the spotlight of world news. When a petition was started to give the late great John Galsworthy an Abbey burial Dean Norris was "forced regretfully to decline." Unofficial reason given was lack of space. Last week came to light a speech by Dr. Norris before the Architectural Association...
...thousand people were in the building. All but a few hundred on the two lower floors were trapped by the flames. Screaming crowds rushed to the roof where the management had installed cages of live lions, monkeys, bears and a little shrine to Kwannon, Goddess of Mercy. Fortunately employes had had a weekly fire drill. There were no fire escapes in the building, but each department was provided with collapsible canvas chutes known as "lifesacks" down which people could slide to the streets. Quick-witted clerks on the fifth floor saved many lives by twisting a life-rope from...
Neighborly and helpful if a bit blatant seemed the San Francisco Public Health Office when the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine met there last summer. Tippling Shriners were invited to have their liquor tested free of charge. The invitation came from Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, the bald, beak-nosed Director of Public Health at whose request a survey of poison cases was later made which resulted in the successful use last fortnight of methylene blue, a dye common in the textile industry, as antidote for cyanide of potassium (TIME...
Once the present Republic of Finland was the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland and its beloved "National Shrine" was the high-spired, ancient Lutheran Church at Kolpana which is now in Russia. Spurred by Christmas a pack of zealous Godless comrades, protected by Red Soldiers, rushed upon Finland's Shrine. They called its slender pinnacle "dangerous to Soviet military aviation," ordered appropriate action...
...great Lincoln, in Washington, but we have no statue of Christ anywhere to signify that we are actually Christians and that we recognize Him as Christ the King." So last month spoke Rev. John Joseph Preston, a modest, retiring, 60-year-old Roman Catholic priest, at the outdoor Wayside Shrine of the Passion which he founded near his church in Kearny, N. J. Father Preston was well aware that on the Chilean-Argentine boundary is the great Christ of the Andes, 26 ft. high, that Brazil dedicated last year its 130-11. Christ the Redeemer, world's largest...