Word: joads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late as 1931, and from another gamesman, instead of at his nanny's knee. Students of the British character may challenge this assertion. He was playing a match of tennis doubles against two athletic young men, Smith and Brown. Potter and his partner, the hardened metaphysician C.E.M. Joad, could scarcely touch the first two cannon balls served to them by Smith, and only by accident did the third one hit Joad's racket, rebounding wildly across the net and landing twelve feet out of court...
...about to cross over to serve to me (at P). When Smith gets to a point (K) not less than one foot and not more than two feet beyond the center of the court (I know now what I only felt then-that timing is everything in this gambit), Joad (standing at J2) called across the net, in an even tone...
...Joad: 'No, I don't want to have it again. I only want you to say clearly, if you will, whether the ball...
Also fined was Britain's bearded Philosopher C. E. M. Joad, who had twice failed to appear in court to answer a charge of having ridden on a train without paying his fare (from Waterloo to Salisbury, 83½ miles). In London, he was finally found guilty and soaked a maximum 40 shillings ($8), plus court costs of 25 guineas...
...rediscovered faith, Joad says: "It affords me a light to live by in an ever darkening world." The world's irreligion he does not blame on the churches, but on the people "who won't listen." He confesses to a leaning toward Anglo-Catholicism, but is un-Joadishly diffident about airing his theological views. "I am such a new boy at this," he explains, "that I'd better not say any more about...