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...pass to yon bright shore...
Actors, technicians and equipment were toted hither & yon to get such actual backgrounds as the California Institute of Technology and the radio shack used by the Bureau to relay bogus information abroad. By shooting only 35 feet of film (less than half a minute) in the studio, able Director Henry Hathaway set some sort of record...
Durham itself was divided. The City Council stuck by its power plant. One veteran member shook a gnarled old fist at the cathedral. "Yon bloody parsons gets their money regular," he cried. "It don't matter to them if Durham is unemployed and hungry. A feast of beauty the Dean calls his ruddy cathedral-but it won't fill empty stomachs. The Dean and that lot, they'd like to keep this ruddy city as it was centuries...
Must have a "Welcome" Department this week, so here 'its., Welcome home, Roger Abousamra. It was a long stay in yon hospital and we all's glad to see yo back in there readin', writin', and fightin'. Ben Graves is back, too, after a tussle with "a foreign body, non-traumatic," which, translated, means the removal of a metal, shoulder plate inserted when he busted a bone some time...
...Yorkshire munitions worker. In his spare time Littlewood prepared a primer based on the study of Russian, Latin, Greek, French, Welsh, Arabic and Basic English. Unlike Esperanto, Universal Pidgin seldom uses more than two syllables in any word, telescopes these with borrowed syllables to make new words. Sample: "Yon fo gret blu form bel" (Those four great blue flowers are beautiful...