Word: doomsday
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...moderns expect the world to end with a bang, at least in their own day, but the year 1212 seemed to many an appropriate date for Doomsday. Rumor set the exact time: the 12th day of the 12th month. Author Clayton begins his tale early in this ominous year, in romantic, ravaged Provence, where the fat lands of favored abbeys are set like islands in the war-swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power...
...book out of it." Perhaps, Mr. Franck himself best sums up the value of this book's contribution to knowledge about the Soviet when he adds "You couldn't get the whole truth about the USSR in a single book if you went and lived there until Doomsday. Russia is too big a subject for any one writer." Indeed, this homely philosophy of Mr. Franck's seems right. Franck honestly professes to "know" little about Russia and refrains from uttering any obiter dictums. Thus he attains an case and fluency of his subject not common to the vast majority...
...moved that the present indictment be quashed because of similar "systematic exclusion" of Negroes from the Morgan County venire. When jury board commissioners failed to say whether or not their jury rolls contained Negro names, Counsel Leibowitz threatened to have all 2,000 talesmen subpoenaed "if it takes till doomsday," to see what color they were...
Prosecutor Seabury, wearied by what he considered time-killing legal casuistry, thought otherwise. "They may talk from now until doomsday," said he, "about schools of thought and kingly sovereignty, but they cannot show you any single statute or any plausible reason that lets a sheriff put the interest that accrues upon somebody else's property in his own pocket. This man did it.. This man admits he did it." No one denied...
...picture of her in pajamas; and a bigger picture of a group of platter-lipped Ubangi natives with the caption: "Friends Meet Famous Star At Train. . . . Davies stepped off the train this morning all aglow with hives." There was a burlesque of Arthur Brisbane's "Today" colyum, called ''Doomsday, by Arthur Membrane." Excerpt...