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...that reason, they are already drawing up advertising campaigns that emphasize low prices rather than the usual pretty pictures of faraway places."It will be a devil-take-the-hindrhost situation," predicts a BOAC executive in London. "No airline will allow itself to be undercut. But nobody will be happy about...
...Slavery, Knaves and Knavery, Popes and Popery, from brass money and wooden shoes; and whoever denies this toast may he be slammed, crammed and jammed into the muzzle of the gun of Athlone and the gun fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked and the key in an Orangeman's pocket; and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick the arse of a Papist...
...debauchery). But the most fundamental objection is simply that-St. Thomas or no St. Thomas-prostitution is immoral. The Bible says so quite clearly and condemns it emphatically. Of the countless reformers who tried to do something about the Christian injunction that lust is a primary tool of the devil, King Louis IX of France may be taken as archetypal. Before setting out on a Crusade to Palestine, he ordered all brothels closed. Many of the prostitutes simply joined the Crusade, serving as camp followers on the way to the Holy Land...
...Devil's Advocate
...bomb fell, Tamura was combing the city in search of his wife (he never found her). At the eastern end of the Aioi Bridge, almost directly beneath the flash point of the bomb, he saw an old woman hurling pieces of concrete at the captive and screaming, "You Yankee devil!" When Tamura returned in the afternoon, the American was dead, chunks of concrete strewn around his battered body...