Having been sworn in only three days earlier, she could hardly be expected to know all the arcane lore of the House--nor could everyone know her.
For all his love of the arcane, Mr. Holtzman never meant his house to be pretentious.
But it's a mad world; the world of Harry Potter, of school dorms and tuck boxes, of feasts and bullies, of banqueting halls and wizards, of fags and monitors and house colours and arcane slang.
The Duke of Wellington, a hereditary peer whose father was stripped of the right to sit in the House of Lords 16 years ago, has been elected to the upper house under an arcane procedure invoked after the retirement of another peer.
POWERFUL contemporary images, arcane artifacts, down-to-earth housing solutions, touching tableaux of a bygone era and programs that could keep the most energetic New Yorker going at a fast clip for months are all part of "Home: A Place in the World". This ambitious multicultural event is a collaboration of five New York City museums and the New School for Social Research.
Well, federal law only prohibits the export of crude itself and not "refined products distilled from domestic crude" or crude that has been "processed through a crude oil distillation tower". All of this is set out in an arcane set of federal regulations housed in a mysterious office at Commerce called theBureau of Industry & Security (BIS).
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Now imagine, just days before the shindig, you were forced to cancel the event on account of an arcane law outlawing dancing within 500 feet of a house of worship.
Mr. Toal pointed out that many builders employ in-house specialists for electrical work, plumbing and other arcane functions.
The armchair traveler may appreciate such arcane details as the fact that the Palais Garnier, which houses the Opera, has 2,531 doors and 7,593 keys.
