Word: laurels
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...deceived into goodness by wooden heroes and lay figures, seems to be passing away. But, even worse, the other extreme has been reached. Everything good is questionable; and the bad is not bad enough. We live in an age of debunkment. In athletics, a golden crown has replaced the laurel wreath; the stage is obscene; art is acrobatic; music is barbaric; institutions are enslaving; life is a long slippery rope with a noose...
Being on out and out Laurel and Hardy fan we're not qualified to discuss Bonnie Scotland, the other film, except to say that these two comedians amused us even more than the love interest bored us. And that's saying something...
Cried Laborite Jock McGovern, "This Government has been run by Laurel and Hardy! They have changed places and Hardy is now Prime Minister. Then they have brought in a member of the former Prime Minister's family - they have brought in Jackie Coogan as Colonial Secretary...
...Washington Zoo, six Angora goats and a monkey died of eating laurel leaves and seeds...
...started, he crossed the finish line in last week's Boston A. A. Marathon, winner by a quarter-mile. With feet much too sore to stand, with lungs much too exhausted to speak. Runner Kelley vomited again, allowed his head to be crowned with the first-prize laurel wreath...