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...have shown signs of political restiveness, the King has invoked his father's stern Moslem laws to repress them. To Philby, who saw Ibn Saud's tribesmen sweep the deserts in their puritanical Wahhabi zeal and fury, this is the surest sign of the regime's decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with oil; and the mouths of the preachers and the prophets have been stopped with gold . . . Where virtue reigned on a scale which some may have thought exaggerated, wealth has become the only criterion of merit...
...nonsense, said the A.M.A. Journal, to advise mothers to cut out all sweets (including fruits and other foods containing natural sugar) from the diet of children with high rates of tooth decay. It is all right in such cases to cut out candy, .heavily sweetened drinks, etc., but to eliminate all carbohydrates is unwise-and also impossible...
However, Dr. Spock still insists on some rules: "Candy does a child no good, and encourages decay of the teeth. Postpone it as long as possible . . . Most important, don't offer it as a bribe for eating other foods or being good. This dangling of candy before a child keeps increasing his appetite...
...deeply regret this state of things. For without competition the game goes stale, and the ingenuity of youth lies dormant. This will inevitably lead to the decay of capitalism, individualism, religion, and even the very future of Western Civilization. Accordingly, we welcome any parody, or for that matter, any other sign of life from Princeton. If the Princetonians will show us some spirit, we will show them their flag...
...pumpkin on top of the book that has for many years held John's undivided attention. But the Grounds Crew came to the slow-witted scholar's rescue with a ladder and a long pole. The crew reported through its collective nose that the intruder suffered from acute internal decay, but the statue maintained its dignity and an Ozymandian silence...