Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge by its content, the typical British reader of the weekly Spectator is a staid, orderly man who carries an umbrella on threatening days, and whose wife has the vicar to tea in the garden. He is likely to say "verb. sap." when he means "a word to the wise," and if he says, "I rather think I shall go sailing tomorrow, D.V.," everyone knows that he means "Deo volente" (God willing...
...last week, word of the Jennings bull's-eye had reached the marble-topped tables of the famed Café de Flore, on Paris' Left Bank, where small, homely M. Sartre had first preached Existentialism. The young Existentialists who still hung around the Flore took the news of Resistentialism calmly. Said a philosophy student: "The idea merits attention. Voyes-vous, the antagonism between things and man is nothing new. Even the great Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason seems prepared to grant some mysterious powers to things. In this book Kant admitted that the essential nature...
From their position on Russia's doorstep the Finns could scarcely indulge in anything like Tito's dramatics, but in their stolid way the Finns also had a word to say to Joe Stalin...
...Word to Mother. A radio announcer thrust a mike at victorious Joe Louis. "For my mother. This is for her," Joe said into it. "Tonight was my last fight...
...Society of Aaron and Hur." There are no dues, meetings or committees. Members are asked to look up the 17th chapter of Exodus, then do their best to play Aaron and Hur to their minister, rabbi, priest-or even doctor, teacher or friend. "It may be only a sincere word of commendation or an offer to help in a tight spot. When you have done this twice yourself, you may nominate another person for membership. Write your nominee . . . and always remember that Jesus said: 'Take heed that ye do not your alms before...