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...book is divided according to six liturgical seasons-Advent, Christmastide, Septuagesima, Lent, Paschaltide and Time after Pentecost. Advent, writes Mrs. Berger, is the time to begin to "stir up your plum puddings," which were sometimes regarded as "popish" puddings in Cromwell's 17th Century England. In Advent comes St. Nicholas' Day (Dec. 6)-the time for eating a spiced Dutch cookie called "Speculatius." St. Nicholas' Eve is the time for drinking "Bishop's Wine." (To a bottle of claret, add four inches of stick cinnamon, six cloves, simmer about five minutes and serve...
...politicians." The boast was not entirely true. As a boy, he worked as a part-time clerk in his father's general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...
...Though RFC knew that Lustron's steel houses had only a fair chance of survival in the housing market, RFC kept on feeding Lustron millions because it knew that otherwise Lustron would die. In two years, Lustron swallowed up $35.5 million.* Last week RFC lent Lustron another $2,000,000 to keep the company going through September, and then asked Congress what to do about its ugly duckling...
...problem was that Lustron needed an additional $14.5 million. But with that, most of RFC's allotment would be spent, and even then Lustron's success was uncertain. If RFC refused the new loan, the $37.5 million lent was down the drain. While RFC waited for a suggestion from Congress, Lustron made some savings. It laid off 600 workers, partly because it had some 400 houses on hand and wanted to sell them before producing any more...
Lusty Poet Robert Burns stood posthumously revealed as a pillar of unexpected propriety." In a holograph letter sold at a London auction last week, Bobby told an author friend that he had once lent a sailor a copy of his book. The book, said the poet, had so affected the sailor that instead of seducing a girl friend, he had married...