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...Worse. In Ventura, Calif., Police Lieutenant Ray Rude arrested Lenwood Andrew Jeanne as he left a wedding chapel with his new bride, impounded the wedding ring, accused Jeanne of purchasing it with a bad check, booked him on suspicion of forgery...
Last week Britain's hallowed institution suffered a rude shock. Responding to a request by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler, bank managers dispatched polite letters to their clients: "If it is convenient" would the clients reduce their overdrafts by an amount specified to meet the particular situation? The purpose: shrink Britain's bank credit (estimated at some $6 billion) by at least 10%, thus help Butler's war against inflation (TIME...
Thus, they take their secret shame with them wherever they go, and to compensate they become rude, overbearing and superlative-addicted ... In other cities the fandom is notoriously ignorant, unfair or surly - sometimes all three. Only in the Polo Grounds do you get a solid mass of intelligent, polite, yet loyal, spectators." Clearly, Fiction Writer (Big Out) Hano suffers from the astigmatism of his trade ; his picture is purposely a little out of focus. But sitting with Hano at that game (Giants 5, Indians 2), and rummaging through his baseball memories with him, is fine fun. Still, the reader wonders...
...Romeo, "that my real motivation was rebellion against the father . . . enabled me to become a staid and worthy upholder of the honor of the Montagues." Says Hamlet: "Dr. Bombasticus persuaded me that I was very young and had no understanding of statecraft. I apologized to my mother for any rude things I might have said." Moral: An ounce of poetry is worth a tome of Freud...
...husband quite often starts off, 'Call yourself a minister?' Of course he considers that anyone who hasn't been 'properly' ordained, with the laying on of hands, has not really been ordained. Fortunately, we both like to argue . . . But sometimes he's rude about extempore prayers, or he'll say, 'Call yourself a church...