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Both churches and mosques were on the archbishop's itinerary. Guarded by two black-uniformed kawases (attendants) armed with scimitars, he toured Jerusalem's mosques, wearing large sheepskin overslippers. Then the Primate walked up the Via Dolorosa on the route where Christ had climbed to Calvary...
When Brinkley drifted to tiny Milford, Kansas in 1917, his assets were a sheepskin from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City (a diploma mill), a membership in the Masons, and a Saxon Six automobile. Then a rustic came to Brinkley with the complaint that he was a "flat tire," sexually inert. Somehow, Brinkley hit on the idea of implanting a fragment of goat gonad in the old fellow's testicles. He did, and before long the patient had recuperated to the extent that he was able to sire a healthy son-a lad named, appropriately enough, Billy...
...Urbino Bible (see color pages) was meant to outdo in magnificence any previous manuscript. To comply with the duke's wishes, a noted Florentine bookseller commissioned one Ugo Comilli to copy the text on milk-white vellum of calf or sheepskin ; three artists whose names have been lost illuminated key pages. The finished product passed into the safekeeping of the Vatican Library in the mid-17th century, was last displayed in 1950 on the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Vatican Library, and is currently kept in a massive oak cabinet in the Vatican's special storage...
...sales were banned on election day and, dressed in Sunday best, most voters went straight from Mass to the apartment houses, factories, country shops or town halls where dignified local polling officials kept potbellied stoves stoked against the biting cold. Parents came to vote with small children wrapped in sheepskin kozuchy. Nuns with stiff white headpieces stood in lines with mustachioed peasants and smartly uniformed army officers. One elderly woman arrived to vote with a goose on a leash...
...absolute virtue is not the only command written upon the sheepskin Harvardiana-brethren, ye must not hide your light under a bushel. Consider the needs of the simple and sociable savages in the West, the rude frontiersmen doomed to destruction in their shiny Jaguars, the winning young ladies in their sororities and sewing circles-all, all waiting for that saving seed, that saving seed which only we and our apostles can plant...