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Lansbury, George, irascible Commissioner of Works, England's veteran radical. White-haired, with clipped mutton-chop whiskers, he is a teetotaler, a nonsmoker, and was twice imprisoned...
...Horan, chief buyer of Armour & Co., saw and admired youthful Jerry, appointed him assistant executioner in the stockyards. During ten years Jerry led the macabre processions of sheep and lambs to the slaughter house. Seven million innocents followed him. None of them returned. All became lamb and mutton chops. Deceptive Jerry was pampered, lived in idle ease. He died of old age after a succes d'estime...
...thought to the soldiers ahead or to the "radical" bomb-plotters who had necessitated their presence, he did not show it. He gazed with placid satisfaction out of his car window at the Argentine's horizon-filling wheat ranches and pampas, at her myriad herds of kine and mutton...
...sojourn thereabouts. In condensed form, the letter said: Buddhism in Tibet, its ancient stronghold, has become a depraved Shamanistic religion. The celebrated Tashi Lumpo monastery, residence of the abdicated Tashi Lama, has been deserted and desecrated. Lamas, teachers of the people, tell fortunes for alms, by the haunches of mutton, or dice; they beg and cheat; to mystify the ignorant, they mutter squeaky conjurations or play with human bones. The forest-dwelling Buddhists revere arrows and absurd amulets. Conscious reverence for Buddha is held by very...
Spanish scurriers to dictionaries were intrigued and mystified by the primary meaning of lustrum: a Latin word signifying the festival at which Romans purified themselves by sacrificing to the Gods many a pig, sheep, bull. Was beefy Dictator de Rivera announcing Spanish sacrifices of pork, mutton, beef...