Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should Lord Burghley's father, the 5th Marquess of Exeter, die, the young Justice of the Peace would take his seat in the House of Lords, inherit estates of 27,000 acres, and become both Hereditary Grand Almoner to His Majesty & Custos Rotulorum of the Soke of Peterborough...
...with razor blades. Said he: "Send them to me. . . . I never could get enough of them. . . . For years I have been collecting used blades to present to my woolly friends in Southern Sudan who are experts at shaving each other's heads with them. . . . I will take them back with me in the autumn...
Informed of the event, non-Catholics were properly impressed by this example of the technical propriety with which Catholics surround the sacrament. They wondered, nonetheless, whether such a rebuke might not be even more fitting when applied to the members of some Protestant sect who, when they take communion, actually touch the chalice with their mouths; rather than to Catholics who merely stick out their tongues to receive small circles of wafer...
...elected on the wave of an emotional appeal and I feel sure that I am not entitled to be so honored. . . . There is also a possibility that the new post might take me away from India, which...
...legal authorities are permitted to judge of obscenity in contemporary works of art, there is no consistency in depriving them of the right to pass upon old works of art which are still in circulation. Thus it would be logical and just for a warden of morals to take exception to many passages in Shakespeare, to large chunks of the Holy Bible. An expert upon nude statuary might condemn, and rightly condemn, the Venus de Milo...