Word: tantalus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were members or friends of the ten-year-old Baker Street Irregulars (hosts at the Murray Hill dinner), a strictly stag club with branches in Boston, Chicago and Akron. Its two officers bear strictly Holmesian titles: President Christopher Morley is Gasogene-&-Tantalus (Holmes kept his whiskey in a tantalus, his soda water in a gasogene); Secretary-Treasurer Edgar W. Smith is Buttons (pageboy in several Holmes stories). Franklin Roosevelt is an Honorary Irregular. This was the first dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars to which women have been invited...
...relationship, did the Master use those profane words ["Quick, Watson, the needle!"] to his Boswell. His addiction to drugs was an early and passing phenomenon, inspired by boredom and abandoned in the maturity of his years. . . . But even in the days when the needle lay beside the gasogene and tantalus, Holmes did not stoop to call for it in such undignified terms...
...next year's crop of Seniors are shaking in their boots for fear that they will be wearing khaki rather than the cap and gown one year from now. Men called away by the army in the middle of their Senior year will find themselves in the position of Tantalus, so near a degree and yet so far away. In anticipation of the inevitable some definite mechanism must be adopted to handle these cases...