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...Arms and the Clarenceux King of Arms; the four Pursuivants, namely Bluemantle, Portcullis, Rouge Croix and Rouge Dragon; the Herald of York, the Herald of Windsor, the Herald of Richmond, the Herald of Chester, the Herald of Somerset and the Herald ,of Lancaster; two mace bearers and the workaday state heralds who raised silver trumpets and blew a triple flourish...
Again quoting the blurb-sheet, the University do scribes "Hands Across the Table" as "an hilarious romantic comedy of young love in a modern workaday world, centering mainly about the adventures in the life of a pretty, ambitious manicurist, who, tired of being a working girl, decides to capture a rich husband, regardless of whether she loves him or not." And this is about what it is, though it's not particularly hilarious, nor very romantic. Silly would be a better word. Needless to say, she does not marry for money, but for love--you can see that coming...
...surgeons' convention also provided plenty of good, sound, workaday surgery. For weeks California surgeons had been saving up their extraordinary cases to demonstrate their virtuosity to their visiting fellows. Sightseers repaid the local surgeons by giving them many a wise bit of counsel, among which were the following...
...last week Dr. Clinton Wunder of Los Angeles swept aside all workaday objections to the Townsend Plan. "We believe that God is on our side," cried he, "and with God all things are possible...
...majestic entrances and exits she rarely catches her foot in the mat. But the grandness of her manner, which was increasingly impressive in The Time of Man and The Great Meadow, has now reached such a pitch that readers cannot hope to come near her without taking off their workaday shoes and donning reverential slippers. Many a reader will consider life too short for such sartorial efforts; but for those who do not, Author Roberts has some solemn symbolism to show...