Civility, a priceless tool for business success
An old copybook maxim extols civility as a costless yet valuable investment. Civility opens doors in sales and jobs, attracts higher-ups, and keeps your qualities in view, surpassing brains and industry in market impressions, as John Bigke notes.
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How Jewelry Meaning Shifted From Place to Goods
A discussion on how the word jewelry shifted from naming the place that kept jewels to meaning the jewels themselves. It traces misuses from signs over shops to general speech and compares related terms pastry confectionery crockery and their origins.
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Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
Gentle Hearts and Great Minds in Angling Lore
A brief excerpt from The Persistent Angler and Brock Trout celebrates humane gentleness in notable figures from Walton to Lincoln. It highlights Izaak Walton’s love of nature over fish, Cowper’s care for worms, Lincoln’s mercy to a pig, and Webster’s restraint to save a robin, portraying a moral ideal linked to fishing and nature’s beauty.
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Temple and House: Idolatry of Self-Protection
By R V H Ostrom, a Moody Bible Institute extension note. The speaker argues that prioritizing home building over worship displaces God, warning that pride and self-interest in domestic life can become idolatrous. He contrasts ancient Israel’s temple with personal dwellings, urging faithfulness before fashion, and to seek God first in all plans.
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The Church Helper Seeks Guidance From Thee
A devotional note appeals to the Good Shepherd for grace to stay on the rightful path. It requests guidance to hear the Lord’s call and avoid wandering, urging steadfast feet on the marked way.
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The Person of Christ Still a Hidden Mystery
A quotation from The Church of Ireland Gazette asserts Christ remains an unsolved mystery to thought yet is humanitys sole savior. It urges believers to content themselves with viewing through a dark glass until they see the Savior face to face.
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Use of the big town house in a playful tale
A newcomer in a rosebud garden of girls is teased about a big town house. Spiegnlces and another girl boast of summering in Maine and Florida while the stranger asks why, revealing the punchline that they need a place to keep away from.
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Not What She Expected Woman Candidate London Punch riff
A London Punch gag pits a female candidate against a heckler who presses for yes or no answers. The heckler turns the exchange into a quip about beating his wife and a sports score, highlighting sly political satire of the era.
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