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...White's The Sword in the Stone (Putnam, $2.50) is a heady mixture of fantasy and fact, legend and history, with other assorted literary liquors-poorly blended and served lukewarm, disguised as cambric tea. This potion the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen for its New Year's wassail. The brew is not potent enough to make a reader pass out, but it may make some heads giddy...
...apparently represents 20th-century totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...
...beautiful painting by Whistler of Mr. Anthony Eden's mother. Today everyone knows that in 1935 a most important British General Election was won by the Conservatives, partly because "the country" believed Anthony Eden was somehow going to make of the League of Nations a shining sword and with it slay the Dictators...
...idea of observing the stomach directly through an inserted pipe originated as far back as the middle of the 19th Century, when Adolf Kussmaul in Germany persuaded a professional sword-swallower to gulp down a long, straight metal tube in the interests of science. But until Dr. Schindler invented the flexible gastroscope in 1932, gastroscopy was seldom practiced, for it was difficult, dangerous, painful...
...impoverish them; this will end in the Jews' having no other means of livelihood than to descend to criminality; "at this stage of development we should therefore face the hard necessity of exterminating the Jewish underworld in the same fashion in which ... we exterminate criminals generally?by fire and sword...