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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Sunday's Jumble answers from the Villages Daily Sun:
Dampen.
Nudism.
Brawl.
Feign.
Benjamin Franklin I imagine must have come up with ways to beat the boredom of many a Quaker meeting he had to endure those first years in Philadelphia so that these would not dampen his free spirit. He was known for his "air baths" of sitting in front of a window naked. He was one of the first advocates of nudism. He was not one to feign the morality of his contemporaries nor however did he brawl with their beliefs for the most part. "If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?"-- Ben Franklin http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/inventions.htm
http://benjaminfranklinbio.com/benja...-religion/145/ |
Franklin had a very unromantic way of choosing his common law wife after she became available through very poor decisions of her own which took her out of the legal marriage market. This was Franklin's Pro and Con calculus which he applied to his decision to move in with Deborah Read. We just hope that Ms. Read did not approach love so or else Franklin may have been
hoisted on his own petard. This kind of
needy accounting did offend many Romantics when they read of Benjamin Franklin's tale of how he decided on his soul mate. It made them quite
queasy. You do wonder how many Pros and Cons some of these Romantics would get if their potential spouses put them to this kind of test? How many
apiece would each have in each column?
Franklin did provide an amusing quote about marriage: "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
Words for Saturday's Jumble: apiece, needy, hoist, queasy.
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/c...2013-03-11.php