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...have been returned to this House," he said last week, "by the will of the people in the biggest working-class constituency in the whole of the United Kingdom, but apparently their will is not to count. It is to be brushed aside because of some archaic legal enactment...
...court artists tried to set the clock back to old King Khephren's time. The new sculptures went back only part way. "They never indeed recaptured the old robust vigor and naturalness," Drioton says. They had "a softness, almost a smile, which links them with the archaic Greek sculpture whose contemporaries they were." A seated scribe looking for all the world like a modern businessman on a holiday at the beach was one of the period's best products...
Peruvian sailors watching the crazy craft under construction at Callao thought the six Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...
...warm, I acted like an uncouth beast. I took my coat off. Duty bound, the woman in charge of propriety, etc., came. The old story. I left, unjustly rankled at her (she does what she's told), but, I think, rightfully fed up with this archaic carry-over from the days of waitress service, spats, and ruffles...
Next week the State Legislature will get a chance to bring the penal code up to date. The Friends of Framingham Reformatory, formed originally to help Dr. Miriam Van Waters in the smear campaign against her, have introduced a bill to change some of the present archaic statutes and to bring them in line with modern sociological knowledge...