Word: cohortes
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...dear to the Christian mind Whenever one of these cracks occurs there is "universal laughter", as they say in Parliamentary reports, and nobody laughs louder, with a more insistent shrillness, than the reverend or almost reverend graduates mentioned above. Already they seem to belong to that up end coming cohort of holy men who are brisk and virile at church doors, and who in their hearts find Jesus Christ all very well, but not so absorbing as Golf on week days. Comment is superfluous; all the same one is continually reminded of Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Sir, the merriment...
...Oxford, will take the floor. Professor Garrod of Merton College, Oxford, has kindly consented to preside. As the debate is open to the public and the motion is to be thrown open to the house, Back Bay is expected to be present in full force to back the Radcliffe cohort...
...thank you in advance for your attention to my modest request. I hope that we will both see the time when, in the mind of the layman, Mars will cease to rule on a celestial throne, but will take residence with his friend and cohort, Satan, in the bowels of the earth...
...violate every feeling of national unity and to eradicate from their breasts every patriotic sentiment. Of this experiment of the arch anti-Bolshevists there can be but one explanation: the Fascists have turned missionaries. The world must be made safe for the new gospel of arrogant bourgeois nationalism. A cohort of eloquent gesticulators will be dispatched throughout Europe, and behold! the new era. When the whole continent turns Fascist, the international problem will be dead, and internal affairs will run like the proverbial clock-work. A new faith, and Mussolini is its prophet...
...will at once appear familiar to any who read the sporting page of one of the large Boston evening papers and who enjoy the "Speaking of Sport" Column. As the foreword explains, the booklet was written as a readable memento of the seventeen days journey in which the Crimson cohort with its field marshals invaded the unknown region to the west and for the first time reduced "barbarian" challengers to submission...