The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
In the Air Forces, Hangar Queen is not a proud title. It refers to any grounded plane which is being systematically cannibalized (stripped of its parts) so that other planes may fly.
[Moses] did not only […] at three Years old cast a Crown, [given] him for a Play-toy, to the Ground, and trample it under his Feet; but as the Apostle says here, when he came to be a Man, he treated it with no more Respect, but refused to be called the Son of Pharaoh’s Daughter.
Lunch will be in twenty minutes. Meantime: I have[…]