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...their own feet, and seem curious if regarded as simple words and not as names. A short list should not omit Youngflesh, Thickpenny, Twelve-trees, Clinkscales, Kiswetter, Diddlebock, Ramsbottom and Pigwhistle. Nor should we overlook the family who rounded out an even dozen children with Corona, but when the 13th unexpectedly appeared, he was resolutely named Ultimus Agiter. There is also the familiar but distressing case of Franklin D. Stink, who petitioned the court to be known thereafter as Harry Stink...
Gilbert has recently published his "13th Annual Report of Stockholders' Activities at Corporation Meetings...
...Angry Council. There were no more genial Sunday teas on the lawn beneath the big trees of the rectory. Indeed, the rector put up a barbed-wire fence around his house. When he tried to sell not only the organ but the church's prized 13th century chalice-to get money for a parish sports program-the parish council refused to approve it. And Nick Bunt, the church warden, a testy-tempered farmer, shouted a plain warning: "If you touch that organ, I'll down...
...Black Carriages. Week in & week out, though, the rector held services. Each Sunday he unlocked the church doors, robed himself and preached two services to the bare 13th century walls. He sang the hymns himself, and composed his sermons with care. Occasionally curious visitors would drop in to hear him. To supplement their attendance, he placed cards in the first six pews bearing the names of his predecessors-Warleggon rectors since the days of the Normans. "I am not sure I do not prefer my congregation of ghosts," he would say. "They cannot object to any innovation I make...
...13th semiannual report, released this week, the AEC told how it guards the U.S. against radioactive dust from its Nevada Proving Ground...