Word: scribes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works that speak of sex," said Salah Eissa of the newspaper Al Ahali, "they will be doing damage to the study of all writing." Indeed, noted some Cairenes, the rulers were too strict in administering the laws of Islam. "A storm is brewing that augurs disaster," warned a celebrated scribe named Yusuf Idris. But do not despair. As the book of tales declares, Allah "alone can distinguish between the true and the false...
...REPORTS, however, met with the White House. In fact, Times man Brinkley extracted some quotes from a senior Administration official" that must have made every news scribe in Washington simply sick with envy...
...sergeant...began a search of the dead man's pockets, looking for means to identify him. He found nothing whatever of that sort, but from a pants pocket he drew out a fat wad of bills, and a hasty count showed that it contained $416. A situation worthy of Scribe or even Victor Hugo!...The sergeant looked at the coroner, the coroner looked at me, and I looked at the sergeant. Then the sergeant wrapped up the money in a piece of newspaper lying nearby, and handed it to the coroner. "It goes," he said sadly, "to the State...
...City Scribe. "Once you're a habit, you've got it made," says San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen. By that measure, the Sackamenna Kid, a bowdlerized self-reference to his Sacramento origins, has it made in three-dot spades: Caen's column has appeared in San Francisco for all but three of the past 46 years, and its six-day-a-week mix of gossipy tidbits, hand-me-down gag lines and occasional nuggets of hard news, all separated by three-dot ellipses, is the closest thing to universal wisdom in the variegated Bay Area...
...annual holiday at their Scottish castle, Charles was snapped as he pored over Victims of Yalta, a grim account by Nikolai Tolstoy (Leo's grandnephew) of the forced repatriation of 2 million Soviet P.O.W.s by Britain and the U.S. after World War II. One Fleet Street scribe joked that between the covers the book might really be The Thousand and One Lusty Nights of Fifi...