It was, Janet thought, a symbol of male religion: there they all were, yappings stilled as they attended League mass, quaffing their communion Tooheys, joining in the votive prayers of groan, chiack, cheer.

In disease of the spleen, especially Banti's disease or fibro-adenia of the spleen, the increase of leukocytes is absent or slight, with no relative lymphocytosis.

While, as stated before, the function of the house flag was to identify a vessel's owner, there were occasions when the flag that was shown represented the agent who was operating the vessel for the owner; or, if the vessel was sailing under charter, the flag flown was that of the contracting party.

Bettman, meanwhile, performed his now-traditional fan dance, skating around the revelation of a third group interested in buying the Coyotes.