My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, I returned home from dinner last night and by reflex flipped the remote control through the network channels. Gosh, the Olympic Games were over. There were no more live broadcasts, commentaries, flashbacks, announcements and results. Somehow, I felt lost. Already, the withdrawal symptoms, the post…
My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, According to Alexander Warrack’s Scots Dialectic Dictionary, this is water from under a bridge over which the living pass and the dead are carried. The water is brought at dawn or in the twilight to the house of a sick person, without the bearer speaking…
My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, My brother told me a recent experience. He took a bus home and fell asleep half way. His wallet slipped out of his pocket without him knowing. He got off the bus and was on the ground both feet. The bus had begun to pull…
My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, By the end of August, I would have completed official visits to 18, or more than one-third of the clubs in the District, which is not bad for the first two months of the governorship. I have been able to cover so many because one…
My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, This has to be a very sad day for the families and friends of the 118 crew found dead in the flooded Russian nuclear submarine Kursk which sank to the bottom of the Barents seas ten days ago after an accident. No doubt, the media,…
My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, Mitford Mathew’s Dictionary of Americanisms explains that this was a short form for a blind baggage car which was a railroad car with no door at the end placed toward the front of the train or next to the locomotive. Thus, in hobo language, beating…
My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, In ancient times, if a husband had no proof, but only suspected his wife of infidelity, he might take her before a judge to be examined, and if she denied it, she would be given the water of jealousy to drink. In this water, some…
My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, This is another forgotten English phrase, meaning the long ringlets of a lady’s hair. You probably cannot find it in Longman Family Dictionary or Websters, but try Brewer. Repentir is the French for a penitentiary, and les repenties are the girls sent there for reformation….
My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, At the risk of boring you to tears with figures, I would like to begin with yet another clarification on the Ballot-by-Mail for the 2000-2001 Per Capita Levy for the District Fund. I would try to be brief. For serious readers, please refer to Issue…
My Dear Rotarians and Friends, in particular my Action Presidents, The 1898 Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable defines the gall of bitterness as the bitterest grief, or extreme afflictions. The ancients taught that grief and joy were subject to the gall, affection to the heart, knowledge to the kidneys, anger to the bile, and…
