Word: choicestance
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Franklin Roosevelt, who dearly loves a baseball metaphor, came up with one of his choicest. In Martinique, pro-Vichy Admiral Georges Robert had given way to anti-Vichy Henri-Etienne Hoppenot. Said the President: We waited it out and we got a base on balls...
...three acts" was the entertainment prepaid for the Ashlers, the Ambroses, and other guests at Briggs Hall on Monday evening. Instructors who wonder why we can't remember how to balance the daily records of the Ship's Store and the Navy Mail Clerk were amazed to find their choicest classroom asides so accurately quoted. We hope they weren't surprised to see the ghosts of the celebrated first class of WAVES at the NSCS take on corporeal form. When they sang to the haunting strains of "Chloe," "All our marks will taunt you," and "through your classes here...
Before the invasion, Norway's Church had largely lost touch with the common people, and congregations were composed mainly of old folk. Young people were increasingly critical of the Church's value. They questioned whether the clergy, to whom the State often assigned the choicest farms in rural areas, were worth their salt. Now all Norway, indeed all Scandinavian Lutheranism, knows the stuff of which Norway's clergy is made. The Church, standing firmly for the dignity of human freedom, has regained its lost prestige. Of the Church's clergymen, only 64 still function under Nazi...
...churches, which own some of the choicest blocks of tax-free real estate in the country, feel a cold chill coursing along the pocketbook nerve. The Louisville City Council plans to place all church-owned real estate used for business purposes on the tax rolls. Several million dollars' worth of property, owned mostly by Baptists and Roman Catholics, will be affected. The owners will have to go to court if they wish to protest the assessments...
...made a juicy discovery: the world was wondrously full of charitable persons whose hearts and pocketbooks bled at letters of appeal, and who made no importunate inquiries as to what became of the money. So the methodical Vicar compiled his own card-indexed list containing 20,000 of the choicest, most tenderhearted names in England, found he could have his own motor, furnish the vicarage like a house in London's swank West End, spend more than 20 times his Vicar's miserable stipend of ?400 yearly...