Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intrusion that Author de la Roche welcomes is her daily bundle of mail, with letters from Jalna readers all over the world. In last week's mail was a hand-tooled notecase from D.P.s in a camp in Germany. Other letters came from Dutch people whose farms were flooded, from Frenchmen who lived out the Nazi occupation. Most correspondents write wistfully of the serenity of Jalna manor and the abundant life of its people...
...down their hair before the press -without getting into trouble in the process. By giving a frank-and unquotable-explanation of the background behind official actions, bigwigs had often helped reporters do a better job of interpreting the news. But the handy phrase has long since gotten out of hand. Last week Managing Editor Norman E. Isaacs of the St. Louis Star-Times charged that editors who persisted in kowtowing to "off the record" were "frequently guilty of suppressing news...
Last week as he prepared to hand over his job to Father Laurence J. McGinley S.J., of New York, Father Gannon made it clear that he still hopes Fordham will have no part of plans (such as are called for by the President's Commission on Higher Education) for still more greatly increased college enrollments. His remarks ended with a typical Gannon snapper: "Instead of accepting more & more as the number of applicants increase, we intend to screen our students with more & more care . . . Unless we have this type of aristocracy . . . our Jeffersonian democracy will soon be a Russian...
...Hand In. Schmidt is still chugging away on an active schedule. Up at 6 a.m., he makes his hospital rounds, sees office patients, holds consultations until late in the day. Ten years ago he laid down his scalpel, but he still watches operations, and he likes to show that his hand is still tremor-free. He still smokes ten cigars a day, and snaps off his hearing aid when ever a physician friend needles him to cut down...
Even registered Orthodox priests cannot hold classes in religion for children under 18. A nine-year-old boy showed Father George how children learned their catechism. "He held up his left hand, fingers outspread. T have five friends. I know my catechism from my comrade, who learned it from his grandmother. I have to teach it to my five friends . . . I give them an examination. Then if they pass, they become teachers. Each of them has to pass it on to five other friends. That's the way it spreads...