Word: slipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps to the throne followed by his Queen, Isabella. His eyes were downcast and glued to his outturned feet for fear he might trip on his trousers. When at last he stood at the top, the crowd applauded. Pedro started to prostrate himself to kiss the Pope's slipper, but Pius, quicker than he, put out a restraining hand and proffered the papal ring instead. Then the two talked, and tears welled in the old King's eyes...
Body & Soul. Those principles add up to no comfortable, carpet-slipper religion. One of Founder MacLeod's favorite quotations is from Dostoevsky: Love in practice is a harsh and terrible thing compared with love in dreams. MacLeod says: "Our present tragedy, with 'one world dying and the other powerless to be born,' is that the church is too ethereal in its instructions, and the world is too material in its constructions. Jesus Christ...
...Cancer's estimated annual worldwide toll: 1,000,000. *The paramecium, a slipper-shaped animalcule less than 1/125 of an inch long, comes in eight sexes, multiples by dividing itself in two, lives in lily ponds, goldfish bowls, is sometimes found in drinking water...
Chemically, the Last Slipper had always been a bad risk. The refectory of Milan's convent church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, where Da Vinci painted the jfresco, was damp to start with. To make matters worse, Da Vinci, the eternal experimenter, invented special tempera pigments for the fresco, and they proved to be less durable than those then commonly in use. Even in Da Vinci's own lifetime the Last Supper had begun to fade, and as early as 1556 Art Historian Vasari complained that it had become "a muddle of blots...
...heavy (186 Ibs.) to lose a slipper without knowing it, Peary has had a Cinderella's good fortune. Since he left Fibber McGee & Molly as a straight man in 1941, his show has held its own among favorites. Last week, he entered the top 15 with a Hooper rating of 16.8. He is even better as a storyteller. He sings, growls like a giant, laughs like a villainous ogre, wails like a princess with a pea in her bed. His tag line: "By the way, you better . . . turn over the record . . . while I light a cigar...