Word: harking
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...come to my ears that there are those amongst you who deny the teachings of the great Hark Ness, and who do form among you clubs whereto others of your throng are not admitted. Which is not nice...
Only a Pope could do for an old friend what Pius XI did last week. As he was borne into vast St. Peter's on Easter Sunday to take his place upon the great throne, the Holy Father's thoughts could hark back to the 1880's when he was a young priest in Milan named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti. In nearby Turin an old priest named Giovanni Melchior Bosco was already famed for his good works among Italian youth. The two met, were friends until Don Bosco died in 1888.* Thereafter Achille Ratti rose...
...Hark! The Wolf is at the door. Kick him once. Kick him some more...
...most amusing, is the tale of Oswald, "the compleat bachelor," who longs only for a continuance of slippered ease and financial assistance from his dominating aunt. An overdraft at the bank sends him to her for help. She, concerned that he is not advancing in a "career," gives him hark-from-the-tomb. To pacify her, Oswald, to his own horror, suggests that he become a literary man. Desperately he begins to twiddle with pen & ink, and on the strength of this activity his aunt palms him off as a literary genius on Julia. But Julia soon discovers that Oswald...
...hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...