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...that the spire, even if built, is likely to fall, his fellows in the cathedral chapter all oppose the plan, but Jocelin will brook no interference. Consumed by his dream he goes into debt, disrupts the services of the cathedral, fills the choir with the blaspheming of dirty workmen...
...Senator (1929-41), and a delegate to every G.O.P. National Convention but one between 1904 and 1960, a multimillionaire real estate man and farmer who rejoiced in his title as the state's "Strawberry King" while pushing through as Governor a program, then considered "dangerously liberal," of workmen's compensation, vocational education, state income taxes; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia...
...sings improvised melodies to verses from Confucius. One night's program may include everything from a down-home treatment of Ballin' the Jack to a Yugoslavian dirge, and there is even one Italian folk singer whose songs are collected in the best ethnic tradition -from peasants, workmen, and lifers in an open-air prison in Sardinia...
...million for its stay at the fair, just about enough to pay for the Vatican's embarrassment if the sculpture broke. In Spain, squabbling continued over the proposed loan to the fair of El Greco's 15-ft. by 24-ft. The Burial of Count Orgaz, while workmen waited to peel it from a wall in Toledo's Santo Tome Church...
...pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar," said the admiral, "and I'm mad." Bulkeley then ordered workmen with saws and acetylene torches to the scene, watched as they cut the two pipes leading into the base from Cuba, thus shutting off Castro's water once and for all. Said Bulkeley: "That's it, and to hell with it." In Key West, meanwhile, the Cuban fishermen...