Word: swithins
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...Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain. St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair. For forty days 'twill rain nae mair...
People of the East last week muttered about St. Swithin because it had rained in a few places along the Atlantic Coast on his Day (July 15),* and on day after day thereafter the skies opened, the clouds burst and most of the East from Maine to Georgia was drenched to sogginess. Meteorologists explained that a "cold front" had merely come to a halt at seaboard, meeting warm, moist airs from the sea. This knowledge "was small comfort to marooned motorists in New Jersey, stalled train commuters in New York, flooded manufacturers in Pennsylvania, growers of damaged tobacco in Connecticut...
...small, carpeted, oak-paneled room in the offices of N. M. Rothschild & Sons on London's St. Swithin's Lane, six immaculate gentlemen gather every morning except Sundays and bank holidays to fix the world price of gold. These six men, the so-called Gold Committee, represent six great British bullion brokers: N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Mocatta & Goldsmid, Samuel Montagu & Co., Pixley & Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co. Before each member is a telephone directly connected with twelve telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining...
Reginald John Peter Swithin, third Earl of Havershot, had a face like a gorilla,- "much more so, indeed," he confessed, "than most gorillas have." No Earl at birth, he prided himself on having worked his way up, with an uncle dying here, a cousin there, until the title fell...
...early stage is shown here in the vigorous but unskilled drawings from the "Life and Miracles of St. Edmund," of the early part of the century. Its surprising achievement in elegance and narrative skill, a few decades later, is seen in a splendidly decorated Bible, probably executed in St. Swithin's Priory at Winchester...