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...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...
...extreme penalty-excommunication from the local church-often amounted to political exile. In 1640, Sister Temperance Sweet was cast out of the First Church of Boston for giving "entertainment to disorderly Company & ministering unto ym wine & strong waters even unto Drunkenesse & yt not wth out some iniquity both in ye measure & pryce thereof." In 1681, however, Sister Cleaves of Roxbury got off with a public admonition, although she had "corrupted Mr. Lamb's neger" so that "in a discontent" he had set two houses afire...
...most provocative news of medical needlework came from the congress' French president, Dr. Roger de la Füye: "I affirm that acupuncture, professionally administered the evening or morning before a sporting match, will increase the performance of a champion. These same punctures, administered by a veterinarian acupuncturist to a horse 20 minutes before the race, are capable of 'doping' sprinters, trotters or jumpers in a clean and legal manner, and giving them a clear advantage...
Order of the Dragon. A golfer who wants to break par should have gold needles in the leg, chest, shoulder and cheek, and above the left eye, said Dr. de la Füye, and silver needles in the knee and belly. He also had prescriptions for swimmers, bicyclists and concert pianists...
...when Dr. de la Füye stood up at the society's dinner dance to receive the Order of the Green Dragon from Prince Buu Loc, he did not look like a champion. He keeled over in a dead faint. Mme. de la Füye dug her fingernail into her husband's left pinkie (hsiaochung). He stood up for a moment, then toppled again. By this time, Dr. Alexandre Guillaume had found a gold needle, and jabbed it in De la Füye's hsiaochung until the patient complained: "Hey, that hurts!" Thus revived...