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...have capitalized their patrons' taste for the salacious and thereby reaped a tritely-called golden harvest, "Rain"; although it deals frankly with the most delicate of subjects, has in it less of salacity than the average sophisticated revue. Unfortunately a not inconsiderable element of the audience is on the qui vive to greet the least suggestion of indelicacy with furtive tittering, whisperings, and nudging. This discordant note is far more obnoxious than anything that takes place on the stage, and those who contribute to it had best spend their evenings at home exchanging smutty stories. They are quite...
...foreborne to blush on the occasion when the jest was unconsciously perpetrated. Facetious despatches opined that he may have gained fortitude from a consciousness of his right to the motto which encircles his left calf whenever he dons the famed insignia? of the Order of The Garter: "Honi soit qui mal y pense." At any rate he stood at ease, with royal dignity, as those approached who were to confer upon him "the legal right to practice medicine, midwifery and surgery...
...rolled into one! Strangely enough, his pessimistic worldly philosophy caused him to deny explicitly on one occasion that God inspired the almost religious Crusade which he made out of the War. He gave the credit to the Spirit of France: "Ce n'est pas Dieu, c'est la France qui le veut...
...trowel in holy water, dried it on especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another quarter century?until...
...grey rat is black. Henry de Jouvenel was not christened Henri. See p. 408, French Qui Etes-Vous...