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...Church of England was on the side of the National Government, indiscreetly so. Village parsons, safe in their obscurity, were not more rash in dragging the Church into politics than the Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Knowing and hoping that his words would carry weight all over England, he warned the London Diocesan Congress thus: "The credit of the country is so much shaken that if the verdict of the country goes wrong . . . the pound will fall to five shillings within 24 hours, to a shilling within a week and to a penny...
Seven hundred years ago a king of England was rash enough to offer his kingdom for a horse, but conditions being what they were, no one took the offer. Now should he offer a similar trade considering the current rate of exchange in kingdoms, he might approximate the value in a second-hand bicycle. Or what have...
...been treating a St. Vitus boy with sedative drugs, the usual remedy. In this case the drug aggravated the "dancing" spells. But through misunderstanding the child continued to receive the drugs, which were as mild poison to him. After two weeks he broke out with a rash. His fever climbed intermittently as high as 106.4° When Dr. Sutton cured the boy of his fever, she noted that his St. Vitus's Dance was gone...
...Stevenson, Andrew Lang, Thomas Hardy, George Moore and many a younger man. It was to Gosse that Swinburne divulged his famed outburst against Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose reported remarks had offended Swinburne. When Gosse learned that Swinburne had written to Emerson, he said: " 'I hope you said nothing rash.' 'Oh, no.' 'But what did you say?' I kept my temper. I preserved my equanimity.' 'Yes, but what did you say?' 'I called him,' replied Swinburne in his chanting voice, 'a wrinkled and toothless baboon who, first hoisted into...
Questioned as to the widespread concern over crime in this country, Professor Glueck emphasized the experimental nature of the new curriculum. "I should like to stress," he said, "that no rash promises to 'discover the cause of crime' are being made. The Institute of Criminal Laws known that the crime problem is one of the most complex of all social problems and that it is absurd to expect 'immediate results' from any effort in this field. The public have too long been led to false expectations, and too many patent medicines have been peddled in this field...