Word: elyote
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They are Mrs. Catherine Standish, her son Elyot and her daughter Eden. Elyot, as the blurb says, "represents death," Eden "struggles up to life," the mother "wavers between the two." They are presented, in their mutual oppositions, with considerable psychological skill. It all converges, in the long run, on sex for each. Elyot, a scholar, a "raker of dust, a rattler of bones," winds up in bed with an art-gallery Jewess as hard & cold as chromium. Eden, a sultry semi-Marxist, follows an abortion with a hot, sterile series of affairs, finds what she needs in a calm carpenter...
...across the aisle. No business was done. From Denver, Democrat Walter Walker flew to Washington, was sworn in as Colorado's Senator pending the arrival of the official election certificate of Republican Karl Schuyler. Two other new Senators: North Carolina's Robert Reynolds and Washington's Elyot Grammer. Absent was Pennsylvania's Senator Davis, whose right to sit has been questioned since his indictment in connection with the Moose lottery (TIME, Aug. 29; Oct. 10). His wife explained that he had gone to Battle Creek, Mich, for a minor nasal operation...
...beginning of the sixteenth century football had attracted so much, public attention as to be the subject of scathing criticism and violent denunciation. In 1531 Sir Thomas Elyot in his "Boke named the Governour" defined the sport as follows...
...pitiable enough without the additional charge of selfishness and thoughtlessness being laid upon the teachers themselves. So long as there is no willingness to improve these conditions, teaching will continue to be of a poor quality. As for the propagandists--for the merely thoughtless, a careful reading of Elyot and Ascham; for the purely selfish--discharge. An education which bends the twig to its own will-be it wholesome or not--can only result in a forest of misshapen trunks...
...ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation is that the code framed by Walter...