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...economically and physically sapped . . ." by wars - in which, may I remind you, you first bled us white with "cash-and-carry" and then joined in largely to protect your investment in our future -are we to understand that you would expect us to be as anxious as the Gadarene swine to plunge to perdition...
...swine'; we say 'hogs,' " explained the editor. "We don't say 'not intended for human consumption'; we say 'not fit to eat.' We try to remember that we're telling a story to a man who doesn't have much time to read and no big library handy to look up the odd words...
...make a million dollars, write 1,000 poems, and live for a century. In hot pursuit of these ends, he hopped a freighter to Canada in 1895, a ruddy-faced, guitar-playing, wind-drifted 21-year-old fiddle-foot with a Scottish burr. He worked anywhere, at anything-swilling swine in British Columbia, tending roses...
...formation, and through the high seriousness of purpose penetrates the underlying bitterness of boys who have been hurt by being kept out. Thus, in explaining the aims of the Society to new members at the first initiation, the president referred to Porcellian as "well suited to receive diminutive swine, but not that portion of the human race who think they possess a soul"; Pi Eta lacked "even a standard of admission, much less one of conduct." But the harshest words of censure were reserved for the arch-enemy...
According to my dictionary, the first meaning of the word "sow" is the "full-grown female of the swine." Therefore, I question the type of "priestly inauguration" held in Jerusalem between 73 and 63 B.C. that served "oysters" (no scales or fins) and "mussels" (no scales or fins) and "sow's udder" (Thou shalt not eat the flesh of any animal that doth not chew the cud nor have a cloven hoof). Will you please explain what type of "priest" was inaugurated at the "sumptuous repast" referred to by Author O'Brien in The Bible Cookbook [March...