His framed photograph hung on the wall near the front entrance, and his hallowed name was mentioned only with suitably hushed awe.

"What in the hallowed name of the Grand Nagus is that?"

Some who remember the dealers of an earlier generation, however, say it's misleading even for the present establishment to carry its hallowed name.

Despite his denials, they assume he is now surpassing the sport's most hallowed names in the record books on something other than his own merits.

Though the story is clearly set at Yale, home base of the secret society Skull and Bones, that hallowed name is never mentioned.

By winning her eighth career major title with the Nabisco Championship, she evoked many of golf's most hallowed names, male or female.

Marylanders you call yourselves - profane not that hallowed name again, for it is not yours.

She said it almost reverently, with no other description, as if nothing more were needed once the hallowed name was mentioned.

It's an old and hallowed name, but I hadn't heard of the genuine article raising his head in Rome.