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...friars, famed for preaching and ministrations to the poor, sprang from the Franciscans. They became a separate order in about the year 1520 when Matteo di Bassi decided that the habit worn by the Franciscans was not the one that St. Francis had worn. He made himself a pointed hood (capuche), allowed his beard to grow, went barefooted...
Next into the fray came the majestic dreadnoughts Hood, Repulse, Ramillies, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign, Resolution, Revenge. From a distance of over ten miles, their 15-inch guns belched their destructive salvos of heavy shells, and at the end of the ninth hour, the Monarch lay riddled in Davy Jones' locker...
...have said that we are getting too learned, and in support of that statement I can assert, on the word of Tom Hood, that `the Boke Man is a Dunce in being Wise.' I call for some antidote for such learned societies as the Natural History Society, the German Club, and the French Club; for the establishment, in short, of `The ignorance Club of Harvard College.' This I do not recommend; I insist upon it as a necessity. If we do not take some step in this direction, if we calmly submit to seeing the requirements for admission slowly added...
...architects competing are: Aymar Embury 2nd: R. M. Hood; Ludlow and Peabody, with H. F. Kellogg of Boston Associated; B. W. Morris, with Eric Gugler, Associated; Egerton Swartwont, all of New York City; Hewitt & Brown of Minneapolis; Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott of Boston; Professor J. J. Haffner of the School of Architecture, with Perry, Shaw, and Hepburn, Associated, of Boston; Guy Lowell of Boston; McKim, Mead, and White of New York City; Parker, Thomas, and Rice, of Boston; and Walker and Gillette of New York City...
...spider in Little Miss Muffitt and the lupine ancestress in Little Red Riding Hood breed fear-complexes...