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...that. He tersely rejected every offer to capitalize on his heroics, declared: "This uniform ain't for sale." He returned to a simple life in the mountains with his wife Gracie, reared seven children. He made several tours in the early '20s to raise money for a grammar and high school at home, only yielded to repeated pleas to permit the movie of his life when convinced that it might inspire patriotism. The movie brought him some $150,000 -plus a yen for philanthropy, countless spongers he was too soft to turn down, and eventually...
...place where a you-who might help, it is missing. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis has been translated as "Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us." Better grammar might have been to change "take" to "takes." Many Catholic missals say "takest," but the makers of this Mass tried to avoid thee-thy-thou forms. Nevertheless they slipped up: the Lord's Prayer still goes, "Thy kingdom come." Other parts have a ring of transliteration, rather than translation, from Latin. "Priests who translate the Mass have a tendency...
...attended public grammar schools, got his first taste of Catholic education when he entered the second-year class at the Jesuits' Boston College High School. "I was as rough as any of them, and they were pretty rough," the cardinal recalls. Actually, he seems to have been a devout and hard-working student; twice he thought of joining the Jesuits before he entered the archdiocesan seminary of St. John's after completing his sophomore year at Boston College...
...Cambridge, Holbrook, 41, is a teacher who comes straight to the point that "the roots of true literacy are in the child's natural urge to use language to make sense of its life." Scoffing at the "didactic decorum" that dominates English teaching, Holbrook ignores graded vocabularies and grammar drills. "Without 'vocabulary lessons' the child yet extends his vocabulary because he is searching for new concepts. Without lessons in grammar and sentence structure he yet comes to write 'by nature' sentences of such complexity that grammarians would take years to catch up on definitions...
...paraphrase the grammar school boff, what are they going to eat in the House of Lords? They won't be able to eat the Sandwiches there any more, because the tenth earl and great-great-great-great-grandnephew of the 18th century titleholder who invented layered lunch has renounced his lordship, like other Tory leaders. He will seek election to the House of Commons as just plain Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu...