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...ancient poet Horace said, "Dulcy est desipere in loco...
...recounts Read, a Canadian sheriff who lost a culprit in a bog swore out a warrant, explaining that the offender "non est comeatibus in swampo." By 1841 the mock Latin for "will not come out of the swamp" was widely accepted backwoods legal terminology for "unavailable." An Illinois tavern keeper posted notice of a delinquent barfly who disappeared without paying his tab: "Non est inventus ad libitum scape goatum non comeatibus in swampo. Ergo, non catchibus, non prosecutibus, non tryabus, non chastisibus...
...records two vivid and poignant modern samples of ravaged Roman: General Stilwell's World War II motto, "Illegitimati non carborundum [Don't let the bastards grind you down],' and Adlai Stevenson's classic cry of anguish, "Via oviciptum dura est [The way of the egghead is hard...
...ancient poet Horace said, "Dulcy est desipere in loco...
...some types of cases the operations have now been simplified, and they are being done in more and more hospitals, many in smaller cities. Example: Karen Lee Gordon, from Pana, Ill., went to St. Mary's Hospital in nearby Decatur (est. pop. 75,000) for five operations to correct a complicated no-gullet anomaly. Last week, out of the hospital in time for her fifth birthday, she was eating normally, tasting and swallowing food, for the first time in her life. She even had sausage for breakfast...