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...wrath, oh day of mourning," sang the officiating clergymen at the funeral service in Britain's Leighton Buzzard parish church; "see fulfilled the prophet's warning, heaven and earth in ashes burning...
Suddenly a flickering, ethereal light danced about the venerable head of Rural Dean Cyril A. Wheeler. The back of his snowy surplice had burst into flame from a nearby candle. The dean looked startled, but stood quietly as Leighton's quick-thinking Vicar S. John Forrest hurried over and began beating him on the back with a hymnbook. In a moment the crisis was over. As the solemn Requiem Mass swept sonorously on ("Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, rescue me from fires undying"), Dean Wheeler hurried out to don a new surplice. "I felt unusually warm," he explained...
Inter-House dining privileges will be extended to those who eat in the Union for a period of two weeks, beginning next Monday, Dean Leighton announced yesterday. Finding friends who are members of a House will be unnecessary...
...Marie Leighton was adamant about airing. There was no better way to catch pneumonia, she said, than to wear a flannel garment that had not been properly warmed and aired. "And when it comes to things like chemises and drawers, which go next to the skin, it's always on the safe side to let them go on airing for the better part of a week." She was adamant on many points: furs mothproofed with pepper, the futility of female education, the social inadequacy of Unitarians. Robert Leighton, her husband, was unfortunately not only a Unitarian but a less...
...judge who claimed that he had loved 100 women, no more, no less; the great Lord Northcliffe, who usually passed at least part of each visit relaxing prone on the floor. "There's absolutely nothing to be surprised about in someone choosing to lie on his stomach," Marie Leighton explained. "The sooner you children learn to accept any eccentricity as though it were a commonplace, the better equipped you will be for life...