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...pertaining to the elders." Thus any old people's home, of whatever religion, becomes by definition a presbyterian (though not, Mr. Wolfe, a Presbyterian) establishment; and the Elders of Zion have, by the same token, as good a right to the adjective as the Kirk of Scotland. Similarly, after rooting for the origins of the word church (from Greek kyriake, kyriakon, the Lord's house, from kyriakos, concerning a master or lord, from kyrios, master), we might forgivably maintain that the British House of Lords is as churchy an institution as St. Peter's in Rome...
...consternation of the Home Office and Scotland Yard, Princess Margaret, with the blessing of Queen Elizabeth, broke an old royal precedent, went strolling with her Sealyham in London's St. James's Park, unescorted, and-for emphasis-without...
...Scientific Monthly, Dutch-born Astronomer D. Ter Haar of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, gives a roundup of evidence in support of the catastrophic theory. Ter Haar reasons that if the universe was formed at a single time, many objects in it should have roughly the same age. Then he gathers a collection of age estimates to see how closely they agree...
...bonanza of Socialist sympathy. With him, flashing the three-fingered salute of the P.P.P.. was his Minister of Education; an Oxford-educated Negro named Linden Forbes Burnham. The pair were met at London Airport by a bunch of British Communists, but before they could mount a soapbox, Scotland Yard whisked them away to a private office on the Opposition side of the House of Commons. Clement Attlee, whose government had prepared the way for self-government in Guiana, had urgent questions to ask. He had been disturbed by Lyttelton's handling of other colonial revolts (in Kenya...
...Cartoonist Searle's horror, St. Trinian's has also become a synonym. He first realized this on the day he read a newspaper account of how three girls in Scotland actually did try to burn down a school. "When he read that," says his wife, "he went absolutely white. I kept praying -please, please, don't let them mention St. Trinian's!" But, of course, the newspapers...