Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exact, the fourth ventricle of the trembling sheep, permitting the body to lie undisturbed until the blood had thoroughly drained from its lax veins. The ritual has never changed. Meat that is not fit for a sacrifice is, to the orthodox, not fit to eat. If there is any blemish in the manner of the killing, the meat of that killing is treife, unclean; it taints whatever it touches, and it were better for a man to cut off his right hand than to eat of it. Certain beasts are of themselves unclean?the pig, the camel and the hare...
...ever in round helmet and shiny breastplate-a Roundhead Captain in the forces of Oliver Cromwell. Divesting himself of these friendly ferries, he enters the enemy stronghold at Staversham as a spy. Spying he is spied upon, detected, made prisoner. There follows a hideously tiresome torture scene-the only blemish of the production. Finally the lovely heroine files his fetters and he escapes via the water route beneath the castle walls...
...banquet, it would seem to be a natural culmination to the series of smokers, and its advantages as a "get together" are obvious. Perhaps it is unkind to recall now the one blemish on the 1926 record its Freshman Jubilee. If the banquet is taken in a similar spirit, it will not be a precedent that other classes will care to follow. On the other hand, if put to its best uses, it may provide the very link that is needed between the Freshman Dormitories and the Yard...