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...lobbies to take down the names of parishioners who attended. I was told that all these things had happened in Philadelphia when a picture with a 'C' rating was shown there, and, further, that the rating was an invitation for every local censor board in the country to snipe at a picture, to require cuts or to ban it altogether...
Around the U.S., other stores were plugging foreign goods as hard as Macy's. Into Boston Harbor last week steamed the British cruiser Superb and the frigate Snipe. Over the side came a stream of sailors, who, as bands played, marched straight for Boston's Jordan Marsh Co. department store to open up its "Salute to Britain." On display were $750,000 worth of British imports. Dallas' A. Harris & Co. ended its exhibition of more than 5,000 imports from 26 countries, while Los Angeles' J. W. Robinson Co. got ready to put on a similar...
...collective nouns for animals [TIME, June 4]: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 14th-Century romance Sir Nigel speaks of a cete of badgers, a singular of boars, a sounder of swine (when hunted), a nye of pheasants, a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock, a wisp of snipe...
...proud, and respectful response to the 1951 Festival of Britain. It is the subject of street corner talk, dinner table conversation, cocktail party repartee, and even political debate. The Conservatives have few compliments to pay the Festival because the Labor Government is behind the show. Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers snipe at the project whenever they can and already mourn for the several million pounds the exhibition is expected to lose. During the first week, the papers complained that the prices of food in the festival restaurants were prohibitively high for the working man. When the prices were lowered...
...fared no better, says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel...