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...Sash Me Father Wore." TIME'S correspondent last week attributed the relative quiet of the celebration to "the desire of the Ulster Government to maintain the status quo, and to the shortage of whiskey." July 12, 1947 in Belfast was not entirely dry, however. As the parade made the turn by the block-long Arcadia Bar, many marchers took a short cut and a pint of Guinness, and joined the parade again as it stomped along singing The Sash Me Father Wore (which was orange, of course...
Unwilling to grant any compliments to the present government, Conservatives maintain that all effective control, rationing, and price measures now in effect were started by the wartime coalition cabinet...
Filling Cunningham's spot will probably be the toughest. The rest of the boat conquers of falls on the pace that its stroke can set and maintain for them. Of course, as in any team sport, that isn't the whole story; but situations may arise, as they did in the four-mile regatta with Yale, that the stroke must carry the shell when his mates are having trouble. In that particular back-breaker, too little pre-race warmup caused physical complications about half-way through among the men behind Cunningham, who practically bore the weight of the speeding shell...
...required and so was excellence at swimming, riding and tennis. Father didn't ask the impossible, but he expected all of his children to be in the first ten in their classes at Packer Collegiate Institute. When Gulielma was too ill to do homework, she was told to maintain her standing by memorizing what went on in class. Father did not permit his womenfolk to wear corsets, because he held that the body, as well as the mind, should remain uncramped...
Islam does not maintain that its prophet, Mohamed, was divine; it does not deny Jesus (Issa), but calls Him the divinely sent redeemer rather than the Son of God. It permits limited polygamy,* strictly enforces prohibition, but believes in a paradise full of rich, non-intoxicating wines...