Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*Judith appears in the Apocryphal book of the Old Testament which bears her name. In order to save her town she engages Holofernes, the attacking general, in a drinking bout; persuades him to try one of her potent highballs. Soon he loses consciousness. Soon she cuts off his head, rushes...
The Princetonian has at least evolved a tenable diagnosis of the ill, and the suggestions that have been made are honest attempts at its cure. But much is still to be said, that will probably, for many years at least, remain unsaid. The yearning after synthesis, the desire for some...
By this time the scrivener was so famished that the stuffed brown bears on the cliff overlooking the lake looked appetizing and as the Golden Rod Bassaqua was fondling a pet "huskey" instead of cooky savory moose chops he excused himself and headed for the nearest "hot dog" caravansary.
I'll buy you teddy-bears and geese; Come, Peaches, can you care for these? A puppy dog, an alligator-- I'm just a lovable old satyr!
A copy of the first edition of this work, which on its appearance 300 years ago was enthusiastically hailed by the adherents of scientific progress and condemned by the Church authorities, was received recently by the Widener Library and is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room. This volume which...