Word: afterthought
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Sullivan didn't admire all the Union selections-he had never read The Anatomy of Melancholy, considers Chesterfield dull and pompous, and The Virginian "tame stuff for a student in the atomic age." Besides, nobody had stolen any Shakespeare or Dickens. His consoling afterthought: "Well, the academic year is only half over...
...blue velvet, name of Bing Crosby, add several measures of topflight tapping by Fred Astaire, sprinkle happily with a few cups of amusement by Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, stir in 32 Irving Berlin tunes of ageless vintage, and include (more or less as a seasoning afterthought) a pretty feline-eyed gal whom the boys call Joan Caulfield. The final product--"Blue Skies"--should be, and is, by cinema standards, a fine bit of musical entertainment. Its conventionally silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby and Astaire but eventually marrying Bing, Mr. Right Guy. After loving...
...afterthought, Brenner's editorial adds. "At any rate, they have innumerable bridges in their vicinity which could more understandably bear that honorable name...
When asked how he was doing in school, Tommie replied, "I won the State Reading Certificate two years in a row and the award for not being absent for five years." Then, as an afterthought, he added, "You can quote me on that...
...race. He got mad whenever he thought about how pudding-headed George III and his pig-headed advisers had split that race. The money Rhodes made digging diamonds and empire-building in South Africa he left for Oxford-to unite Britain and the U.S. (Germany was added, as an afterthought) as the leaders of a world at peace. He thought Rhodes scholarships would turn the trick in a century...