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...question. With millions of radio listeners tuning in, one smart Kieran asked another to give the first line of three poems. Father John muffed Shakespeare's Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kieran & Co. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...days of machine rule are numbered," says F. Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government, sounding the death knell of boss government in an article in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marx Sees Decline of Machine Domination in City Politics | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...Costa Rica's beautiful up-to-date capital, San José, sirens last week blared the death-knell of the very company which supplied them with power-big Electric Bond & Share Co.'s little Costa Rican affiliate which supplies San José and 32 nearby towns with electricity. For a year the Central American Republic's unicameral Congress has engaged in a tiff with Bond & Share. Bond & Share sought a new franchise for its affiliate, asked permission to charge higher rates. The Congress considered the proposed rates exorbitant. Month ago the Congress broke the resultant deadlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Electric Ax | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Although Christians have had to believe in these tenets without any empirical proof of their truth, Wild said that "scientific and historical approaches to the Scriptures have not sounded the death-knell of faith." Wild went through the Apostles' Creed and discussed each article, bringing in the beliefs of other religions when they were relevant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILD GIVES TALK ON CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

...curfew tolled the knell of parting night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/18/1937 | See Source »

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