Word: transept
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Memorial Hall's gloomy transept is now undergoing its first redecoration job in 30 years...
...month, workmen from the Department of Buildings and Grounds have been scraping and washing the walls and ceiling of the transept, which divides Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre, to prepare the surfaces for painting. The ceiling, now a dull mahogany from age, will be restored to its original reddish-gold wood stain, while walls will be painted buff brown with colored striping...
...also denied that the students were planning to hold the Mass at midnight in the University chapel, "with someone rising from a coffin in the transept and deflorating a virgin on the altar as the conclusion of the Mass. There is no authority for this in any of the literature on the Mass, and it seems impractible. On the contrary, our ceremony would have been quite conservative and restrained...
...overcoat climbed to the lectern of St. Paul's Cathedral and pointed a pistol toward the great dome. No one made a move to stop him. Two shots, shattering the gloom of the church, made a noise like an artillery barrage booming across nave and transept. For twelve seconds the reverberations echoed...
...Christmas morning, Night Watchman Andrew Hislop, long used to such sounds, came upon a startling sight: there were marks on the carpet indicating that a heavy object had been dragged down the altar steps, through the transept, past the memorial to Dryden and the graves of Robert Browning and Lord Tennyson, to a side door near the Poets' Corner. Hislop rushed to a phone, called the police. "The Stone is gone," he cried, "the coronation Stone...