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...divorced last fall because she had borne him no sons, last week remarried in Cairo. Her new spouse: Ismail Shirene Bey, a minor official in the Egyptian premier's office. Both Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk) and her new husband are descended from Mohammed AH Pasha (1769-1849), the Albanian adventurer who founded the present Egyptian dynasty...
...American Language, H. L. Mencken complained: "Our maid-of-all-work in [the profanity] department is son-of-a-bitch, which seems as pale and ineffectual to a Slav or a Latin as fudge does to us. There is simply no lift in it, no shock, no sis-boom-ah . . . Put the second person pronoun and the adjective old in front of it and scarcely enough bounce is left in it to shake up an archdeacon. Worse, it is frequently toned down to s.o.b. ... In Standard Italian there are no less than forty congeners of son-of-a-bitch...
...Pravda grunted, digging deep into the Stalinist lexicon of euphemism, was by-ah, yes!-"ideological demotion...
...Ah Miss Curtis..." we said. "No time now I have to rush down and take a shower...
...lectures in this course," started the professor when the group was quiet, "will not be concerned with facts. That sort of thing will be found in the reading. Rather, I will introduce as many interpretations and, ah, insights of my own as the time allows. The subjects of the lecture will be decided after consultation with, ah...