Word: lordly
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...grimace and moan under the Colonel's weight, and end up overwhelming Propp's noble effort. The chorus's distraction in this scene is especially regrettable because the Players have added a sensational new verse to the patter-song in which Gilbert's original recipe--including "the pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the Victory" and "the humor of Fielding (which sounds contradictory)"--is supplemented by additives like "the biceps of Ryan O'Neal" and "the eyeballs of Kermit the Frog...
...coffee. The fraternal transport is not at is beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold: one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races down the street backward, his scarf and topcoat wildly flapping in the wind, crying out in ecstasy. "Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord!" The unbroken tension of weeks--of a year and a half for some, has ended. Bicker is over at last, for them...
...insist the King James is no longer accurate enough. It was translated from relatively late medieval manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek, the best available then, but 20th century research has turned up texts that are as many as 1,000 years closer to the originals. The ending to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6: 13, for instance, beginning with "for thine is the kingdom." is not in the earliest manuscripts...
Revised Standard Version (1952, 50 million sold to date, cheapest hardcover edition $4.50). This translation is sold by many Bible publishers. It keeps close to King James phrasing with modest updating; for example, Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want; he makes me lie [instead of "maketh me to lie"] down in green pastures . . . " It has made use of the latest research into sources, and so is highly regarded by scholars. The R.S. V. is a useful text for many purposes and most denominations. But Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, who buy the King James Version...
...protective. After her parents' messy divorce when she was eight, Diana, her brother and two sisters shuttled back and forth between separate households. Charles was not caught up directly in such marital maelstroms, but he saw at close range how the marriage of his aunt Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon cracked, then tottered and finally fell into little gaudy bits...