Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coffin liked children. If he did not originate, then he made famous the three-minute sermon to children, before the longer, deeper effort. Many of the elders liked the children's sermons best. Once the subject was "The Man that Swallowed Himself." (" . . . the lips of a fool will swallow up himself." Ecclesiastes X:12). "How would you like to be thought of as just a mouth?" the Pastor asked the children, defining fools as boys and girls who bragged, told tales, lied...
...luncheon I swallow a sandwich...
...counting the author and beginning with a handsome, athletic Greek aristocrat who, because of his broad shoulders was called Plato (427-347 B. C.). During populist chaos in Athens, Plato joined the "thinking games" of a homely old idler, Socrates. After the latter had been obliged to swallow hemlock, the pupil proposed exchanging mob government for a Republic ruled by its best intellects. He conceived absolute values for Good, Justice and similar abstractions, a realm of ideals of which ordinary life was but the dim shadow. Aristotle (384-322 B. C.), son of a physician at the court of King...
...really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard. An unidentified Deputy shouted: "Don't you know that if you take their sucettes away, they'll suck their dirty fingers?" Incensed, the sponsor of the bill replied: "At least, Monsieur, the little ones cannot swallow their fingers and choke to death, as often happens when a sucette becomes lodged in the throat...
Folk will pay money to stare at any rarity?whether it is a man who plays exceptional tennis, or a woman who can swallow a snake, or a cow with seven legs. It was inevitable, then, that Vera, Countess Cathcart, being the most prominent woman ever kept out of the country for her turpitude, should either compose or appear in a play. She did both. Last week the play, called Ashes of Love, was produced simultaneously in London and in New York (via Washington...