Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 1946, he had a heart attack during a sermon, finished what he was saying, and then was helped from the pulpit. Though he recuperated, he never let up, frequently ended services by saying: "If I am still here, I'll be with you next week." Once he asked an audience: "Are you scarred of death? I'm not. I'm looking for-r-ward to it-I can hardly wait." Last week, at 46, death came swiftly to Peter Marshall. Two days later, the last prayer he had written for the Senate was read aloud. ". . . Where...
...ll stick you in his pocket, beat...
...without whom Sherlock Holmes would never have existed, Professor Joseph Bell. It was Bell's favorite trick (and later, Holmes's) to guess who and what any patient was without being told. "This man," he would declare, "is a left-handed cobbler . . . You'll obsairve, gentlemen, the worn places on the corduroy breeks where a cobbler rests his lapstone? The right-hand side, you'll note, is farr more worn than the left...
...assorted hucksters who hover around Mem Hall exits to bargain for signatures, money, and political souls of fatigued registrants will be fewer than the number present at fall Term Registration, but they'll be there...
Association of Groundhog Day with Candlemas stems from the ancient belief, widespread throughout the superstitious Christian world, that a sunny February 2 is a sure forecast of a cold spring. As the canny Scotch put it. "If Candlemas be fair and clear, there'll be two winters in the year...