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...earliest and tersest prophets, a Roman sibyl, may well claim the record for prophetic realism. Said she: "There shall be no end to war in this world. They all shall slay one another...
...m.p.h., dust-laden, southerly wind. Arabs have named the maddening wind khamsin (which means 50) because it seems to last for 50 days. Actually it subsides in less than a week, but if it blows longer than five days, tribal law provides no punishment for distracted Arabs who slay their wives...
Miss Lamarr-thanks to careful directing-is something of a revelation herself. Hitherto, the undulant Viennese has been asked to do little but stand around and slay the male section of the audience...
...Government, out to slay a Fascist dragon, still had enough time to pop at field mice. In a Minneapolis courtroom the Department of Justice triumphantly snagged a nestful of mice: 18 Trotskyites convicted of advocating the overthrow of the Government. Only hope for the mice was in an appeal. They vowed they would take their squeaking case all the way to the Supreme Court...
...would have been pleasant to turn round and run back to the car . . . but the place had enormous authority. It was the body of our death, it was the seed of the sin that is in us, it was the forge where the sword was wrought that shall slay...