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...preach on Sunday afternoon in a school-house in the mountains of Virginia. Charles Wesley will preach twice next Sunday, repeating the same service, in the state penitentiary in California. Dr. R.A. Torrey, the famous Presbyterian preacher, will speak next Sunday in the parlor of John Farmer, R.F.D. 6, Pea Creek, North Fork, Ozark County...
Marcello is sure the man is dead. As he grows up, he does his best to blot out the thought that he is a murderer and, if only latently, a homosexual. He finds two partial escapes-becoming a bureaucratic pea in the Fascist pod, and marrying a lusty girl named Giulia...
WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL is fond of his collection of goldfish. When he approaches their pools in the lovely grounds of his country house at Chartwell Manor in Kent, the goldfish dart eagerly toward him. Churchill, wearing his familiar siren suit, an overcoat of a peculiarly bilious pea green draped over his shoulders, was feeding them one afternoon this week. One hand held the inevitable black cigar, and the other dipped into the tin of fish food proffered by his bodyguard...
...placed me among the Greek gods, for names of planets had been . . . previously reserved for them. However, some member of a world astronomical committee on nomenclature subsequently protested, and I was put off Olympus."* He dealt on his own terms with Lloyd George ("He was as nimble as the pea in a shell game") and Clemenceau ("He never did understand Mr. Wilson. I don't think he tried to"), and played a bigger role at Versailles than most histories accord...
...meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk was solid metallic uranium, which does not occur in nature, has to be refined from uranium ore by elaborate processes...