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...Field Marshal Wavell is said to have described the modern soldier in these terms: 'A good soldier must be part burglar, part footpad, part athlete, part gunman . . . and all guts...
...verb "to mugg" apparently stems from the dank soil of 19th Century prisons, where "mugger" was synonymous with footpad-"one of the wretched horde who haunt the street at midnight to rob drunken men." Its meaning, as given by the American Thesaurus of Slang: robbery with violence. In New York City muggers usually attack from behind if possible, throwing one arm around the victim's neck, while the assistant muggers frisk the victim...
...Paris, Barbara found Georges. Georges, a fascinating footpad, was so closely watched by the police that when he became Barbara's nursemaid she was "the best-guarded child in Paris." Away from Barbara, Georges made his living peddling heroin, stealing old masters, putting cotton in public telephones to prevent coins from being returned. Disguised as a Hindu, Georges once robbed a Swiss bank and a French newspaper, ran the story as reported by its "special envoy" at Basle...
Testament into journalese. There the peppery, dogmatic rector of old Christ Church, 77-year-old Rev. Louis Cope Washburn, preached his retiring sermon last January with a bandage about his head, result of an encounter in which he bested a footpad with his umbrella. Episcopal Rev. Dr. David McConnell Steele believes that Lent is a bore (TIME, March 30, 1936), Rev. "Jack" Hart this summer founded the Episcopal Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12), "Rev." Mary Hubbert Ellis scuttles about looking for nude statues to cover up, and Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond broods in a Philadelphia suburb over...
...thou arise from your sleep? out of thy sleep? "A little sleep, a Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, little slumber, a little A little folding of folding of the hands to hands to rest" -sleep: So will poverty come So shall thy poverty upon you like a footpad, come as one that trav-And want like an armed ellcth, and thy want as man. an armed man. A lush garden of Biblical interpretations, notes, pronouncing guides, charts, digests, maps and concordances is available in a new Analytical Indexed Bible, edited by Dr. James R. Kaye, able Bible scholar...