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...beyond Level 6, beyond the Church History section and Migne's Patrologia Latina with its 200-odd volumes, finally exiting by special key on the third floor of Widener. Turning toward the map room, that library without a department, he moved on by the Archives to the main stairway...
...people with artistic inclinations can indulge in creative expression." We thanked Mr. Whiteside for his offer but said we really did have to leave. For a while we had fears of getting lost in the tunnels and had to ask several persons for directions. Eventually, however, we found the stairway up to the Eliot House kitchen, which took us back above ground. Noticing that it was lunch time, we proceeded to Elsie's for a sandwich...
...artist who had just died was called a "giant," and the academy spared itself nothing to give him a giant's funeral. The casket of silver and velvet was lost among palm leaves and flowers, a bust of the dead man stood on a pedestal, and the grand stairway was draped in black. All this was fitting for an age that loved a good show, but it could not have been more inappropriate for the most unobtrusive of painters, George Inness...
...clock each working afternoon, some 20 news editors usually leave a conference and walk down a narrow staircase to their offices. On Wednesday, the conference was fortunately a little late in ending. At five minutes after 3, while the editors were still talking, a plastic bomb exploded on the stairway, destroying three rooms and starting a fire. Instead of killing any descending editors, the explosion succeeded only in wounding a 50-year-old woman clerk...
...from the faro table and snarls at an amateur gunslinger: "Ragazzo, e l'whisky che lavora [Boy, your whisky is too strong]." His angry Italian rings strangely in that watering place of the American frontier. His opponent is fast on the draw, but not fast enough: on the stairway appears a girl in fringed jerkin and boots, firing from the hip. The revolver spins out of the gunslinger's hand. The girl strides coolly across the bar. "Vi do la buona sera, sceriffo" she says to the sheriff...