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Royal Names, Royal Mutton. When all was prepared, King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud (pronounced ib'n sa-ood) embarked with his brother, the Emir Abdullah; two of his sons, the Emirs Mansour and Mohamed; his deputy foreign minister, the Sheikh Yussuf Yassin; his finance minister, the Sheikh Abdullah Es-Suleiman; his courtiers, guards, cooks and other retainers to the number of 48. On this, his first journey outside his own country, the exigencies of space on a destroyer cramped the King's style. Traveling in his own deserts, he would be more likely to have 2,000 retainers...
...Wart also encounters a witch, a giant who apparently represents 20th-century totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...
Eliot: Holsapple, l.e.; Ward, l.t.; At 'ood, Hyman, l.g.; Bond, Brown, c.; 'cannell, r.g.; Loring, r.t.; Capron, r.e.; Robinson, q.b.; Koch, Dennison, Com'ock, Thacher, h.b.; Whitney...
...Delaware & Hudson committed suicide." One of the eight had done so. There was also the time when Mr. Underwood was the butt of witticism by Chairman William Haynes Truesdale, of the Delaware, Lackawanna. "Who was that Negress you were talking to?" boomed the Erie's President Under ood at Mr. Truesdale. Mr. Truesdale, who always seemed sleepy eyed, answered: "She was not a Negress. That was Phoebe Snow and she has just come back from Buffalo on the Erie." Mr. Underwood, during his 26 years' presidency of the Erie* made it a road excellently operated...