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...Tory. Thus spake Churchill the Prophet-to Britain and the world. Churchill the Old Tory stuck to party politics...
...birds, according to Naturalist Konrad Z. Lorenz, the other member of the party, who claims: "I can do it myself." In a new book called King Solomon's Ring (Crowell; $3.50), Dr. Lorenz tells how he developed even greater intimacy than that with which King Solomon "spake also of beasts and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes...
Since neither Byington nor the Christian Century bothered to quote I Kings 13:27, readers rushed to their Bibles. There they read: "And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled...
...poetry; American literature was pervaded by "magazitis," i.e., the dry rot of the high-toned magazines. Sneered Pound: "It is well known that in the year of grace 1870, Jehovah appeared to Messrs. Harper and Co. and to the editors of The Century, The Atlantic, and certain others, and spake thus: 'The style of 1870 is the final and divine revelation. Keep things always just as they...
...last week, Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill sat down in a front pew in St. Paul's Cathedral for special pre-campaign services conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The day's lesson, from St. Luke 6: 39: "And He spake a parable unto them. Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch...