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...tirade is "a sneak attack on a haberdashery," and a syndrome is "a large amphitheater where the ancient Romans used to sin." He dreams moodily of going to Canada and establishing a police force equal in every respect to the Mounties. "I would call them the Royal Canadian Tanta-mounties," writes Wallach, adding with crocodile contrition: "Thoughts like this are basically sterile...
...sold out to the British. He paused dramatically, then he called attention to the presence of a policeman in the congregation. The angry crowd beat up the cop and before the milling was over 23 of the faithful were behind bars. The following Friday, in the delta city of Tanta, another imam accused Egypt's rulers of being "heretics who do not comply with the teaching of the Koran." When a worshiper objected to such mingling of politics with religion, Moslem Brothers set upon the protester, and the imam himself leaped from his pulpit, knife in hand, to join...
...rioting spread to the nearby towns of Tanta, Beni Suef and next day to Giza, across the Nile from Cairo. There Egyptian police, with British Major Lees at their head, met Egypt's young patriots at the great Abbas Bridge. Five times Major Lees shouted to them to go back, then a flying bottle knocked him down. The Briton rose to his knee, took out his pistol, killed one Egyptian, wounded three others. Street fighting then began in earnest. Dead at week's end were eight Egyptians; wounded were more than 200 Egyptians and police...
Greeting the puellae formosissimae, who are never omitted from the Latin Oration, Fitzgerald said: "Numquam nimirum vos preatermittendae estis, sorores, amicorum sorores, deliciaeque nostrae, quibus ademptis nostra vita aridis in libris inanis inutilisque fuisset. Pro tanta venustate vos ter quaterque salvere iubeo...
...without hopes that Mr. Everett-cum tot sustineat et tanta negotia-may in his generosity of soul consent to give a second lecture on Monday...