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...these United States sits that nice young man who sponsored the bill to unify Ireland. And tomorrow, or maybe the next day, St. Patrick will come back to finish the job he started. Sure, it was not enough to drive the vipers out while the lion still has her paw on Eire's soil...
...dodge the trains, more artful in picking her way through the lethal maze of high tension lines, fiercer and more cunning in the chase. One by one the other cats disappeared or died, but Momi stayed on, even condescending to learn a few parlor tricks (like raising a paw on command) for the signalmen in Tower...
...Roman Catholic Church. Medieval and Renaissance artists (including Raphael, El Greco, Dürer and Van Dyck) have handed down a stock portrait of a calm and cadaverous holy man who has generally-following a popular legend-just removed a thorn from a grateful lion's paw. Scholars have long known better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have 'written a combined character sketch of one of the livehest, most learned and most cantankerous saints ever to be canonized a pummeling controversialist who could sniff out obscure heresies as a veteran...
...shots," said Skinner "shows a dog placing his paw on a playing card. They have quoted Dr. Ferster as saying he could teach a dog to play poker in 17 minutes. We never mentioned poker...
Fester added that, at Roddy's insistence, "the paw on the card picture was faked...