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...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...
Spry or Sly? In the end, Linklater's Laxdalers have hopes of getting their road. But they have already got what Linklater feels is equally important-a Dionysian respite from the austerity of modern Scottish life. The minister waving his two-handed sword at the frenzied women symbolically expresses another of the morals of Laxdale Hall: Christianity itself becomes more vigorous when sinners are spry instead...
...naval court martial, an accused officer's sword must lie before his judges to point the way to innocence or guilt at the trial's end. If the sword is presented hilt forward, he may pick it up and resume his duties. If the point is forward, he has been judged guilty. Last week, in the musty wardroom where Hero Mars stood trial for insubordination and absence without leave, the sword was placed point forward. Penalty: dismissal...
...busy President posed only for the grave, ruddy head, but his subject's false teeth gave Stuart trouble, and he never got the mouth to look quite right. As a result, the painting has a somewhat grandmotherly air-despite the sword which Washington seems to clutch for assurance as he extends a reassuring right hand. The vague resemblance of the figure to a teapot, with the arms serving for handle and spout, earned the picture a sneering title: "The Teapot Portrait...
Soft Diet. In Copenhagen, when German Sword Swallower Paul Heinrich Ross developed indigestion, he refused to let a doctor put a rubber tube into his stomach because "I just can't bring myself to swallow...