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Come live with me and my two daughters, Peaches! (Nisi nihil mortus) I'll renta car and tell reporters That where we go, they shall escort...
...DIARY OF A YOUNG LADY OF FASHION IN THE YEAR 1764-65-Cleone Knox- Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr-Appleton. (TIME, Feb. 15, BOOKS.) *Once famed as "the wittest high court judge in England." Recently retired after degenerating into what W.S. Gilbert called "that Nisi Prius nuisance, the Judicial humorist." †A few gentlefolk still vacation at this British equivalent of Atlantic City...
...what are the faculties going to do about it? Gag the the college press, or formulate a rule of "nil nisi bonum do doetribus," and the self-sufficient young college man will at once assume the dignity of a martyr, and then there is no telling what bad thing may happen. Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum...
...wretched little town of Nisi Yugo-Slavia, will shortly be celebrated the 1,600th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (TIME, Sept. 8) Although this town is in the domain of the Greek Catholic Church, the Roman pontiff and, indeed, all "Orthodox" Christian Churches show profound interest in this occasion. For it was the Council of Nicaea in 325 which scotched "the most dreadful heresy which has ever threatened the Christian Church." This was the Arian heresy that Jesus Christ was not divine but merely the most perfect of God's creatures. In committing to Cardinal Tacci Porcelli...