Word: orders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that in future you use single, double, triple and so on dashes according to the number of letters in the words deleted. Thus if one of your correspondents referred to some person as a - - - - -- it would offend no one, and at the same time members of the Ancient & Honorable Order of Occasional Swearers could figure it out and rest assured that the writer is a brother and not some rank outsider in Russian, Chinese or Sanskrit...
...gone by !" He's probably the kind of member that comes for his own funeral when he can't kick any longer. I have one parishioner (?) who has not darkened the door of our church for 40 years. A zealous Mason tried to capture him for the order. The Mason told me he'd failed, and this was the reason: "Why, laws, I'm a Catholic! I belong to Father W." I gave the Mason a drink; the joke was good-and it was on the Mason and me. FATHER WILL WHALEN Old Jesuit Mission. Orrtanna...
...DIVORCE-or the tycoon dynasty- changed the order of the Ten Commandments? I'm neither Editor nor Theologian, just an old-fashioned fellow who learned-and still understands-the Commandments run thus: 6th: Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7th: Thou shalt not steal. Am I out-of-date? Have the Commandments been shifted? If so, by whom? when? why? To supremely subtle, sublimely succinct, superlatively sane TIME I turn for correct information. J. J. SHERLOCK Hollywood, Calif. Unless Subscriber Sherlock learned his commandments from the Vatican account of Exodus, he has forgotten his early schooling. In Bible texts today...
...society must still, for the most part, be interpreted by the use of more experimental hypotheses. In a field which deals with countless variables, the very existence of many of which are scarcely realized, there can be no exact scientific laws. Superficial study has a tendency to discover order where there is none, and it is only by thorough investigation of restricted portions of a field that one gains a respect for the gravity of what seem like simple problems...
...decided upon but he will probably be H. P. Moon. ocC. One member of the Club will accompany him, and stops will be made at New York and Philadelphia for change of passengers. On the return flight, the plane will probably delay at New York for several days, in order to allow short flight's around the city for those members of the Club who care to take advantage of the opportunity...