 | Heinrich Ewald Buchholz - 1923 - 268 pages
...government, may be looked upon with prosaic practicalness. There is an old kitchen rhyme which tells how — Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean; And so between the two of them They licked the platter clean. The Sprats were not democrats, but individualists.... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1924 - 464 pages
..."curiosities," they have a deep significance. They illustrate the biological insight of the old tag: "Jack Sprat could eat no fat; his wife could eat no lean." That was how they managed to get on at all; and it is the same in Wild Nature. This sheds a new light... | |
 | Alpha Wilma Roth - 1927 - 186 pages
...All on a summer's day; The ice it broke, They all fell in, The rest they ran away. 2. JACK SERAT (MG) Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean, So it came to pass between the;a both They licked the platter clean. Jack ate all the lean, Joan ate all... | |
 | Philip Hone - 1927 - 506 pages
..."National Defense," and she follows him with most marvelous incongruity upon "The Horrors of War." "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean." They began this ridiculous career of vanity and silliness at the South, and taking the applause which... | |
 | 1882 - 958 pages
...Blackbird. 8. Sparrow. 9. Nuthatch. CRYPTOGRAPH. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQKSTUVWXYZ. ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJ IHGFEDCBA. " Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean ; And so between them both, you see, They left the platter clean." PICTORIAL ACROSTIC— GLADOVA. i.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities - 1952 - 1650 pages
...bound by NAM reaction. There was one, I believe that dealt with the members of Congress and that was : Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean, Because the Congress done them in and picked their pockets clean. Mr. DOYLE. You mean, then, that that... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities - 1952 - 94 pages
...bound by NAM reaction. There was one, I believe that dealt with the members of Congress, and that was : Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean, Because the Congress done them in and picked their pockets clean. Mr. DOYLE. You mean, then, that that... | |
 | Bryant A. Stamford, Becca Coffin - 1995 - 332 pages
...From Gardening to Volleyball 297 28. 24 Hours a Day 300 References 303 Index 312 The Lew of J«k Sprat Jack Sprat could eat no fat His wife could eat no lean And so between them both, you see They licked the platter clean — In John Clark, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina,... | |
 | Steven J. Brams, Alan D. Taylor - 1996 - 292 pages
...envy-freeness is the stronger notion of fairness: whenever it exists, so does proportionality, but not Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean; So 'twixt them both they cleared the cloth, And licked the platter clean. 7 We will use expressions like... | |
 | Jeane Eddy Westin - 1996 - 476 pages
...something fan for my well-being. After relaxing, I will be renewed. March 19 Become Your Own Nutritionist Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean; And so between the two of them they licked the platter clean. —Mother Goose The Sprats knew what... | |
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Jack Sprat could eat no fat, / His wife could eat no lean; / And so between them both, you see, / They licked the platter clean. 
