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...soul. Bloody, but unbowed. I could, except for my pride . . . on yet. I have my pride . . . tell you the story of my childhood. You would pity me then. It would rate an A. My father hit me on the head with a paper-weight, one summer by the sea, bluer than a vast, incalculable blue book, gleaming in the sun. Beauty. But there is no need to tell you this. You could never appreciate it. Permit me, with my sincerest congratulations upon an examination flawless in its inscrutability, to remain yours, etc., (not sent...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

...blue Mediterranean and the bluer Adriatic seemingly lapped idly along the sunny shores of lower Italy. Beneath mystical cypresses and spreading palms, fountains splashed with silver sound, and the scent of many flowers lay upon the air. Sleek and graceful bodies gleamed through the foliage, all at rest yet all poised in the fleetness of arrested motion. It was a spot and a sight created for the pleasure of a multitude, and a multitude, the automobile-loving public of Manhattan and thereabouts, prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Automobile Show | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...cave dwellers and aristocrats of Washington society might lift their lorgnets and sniff the air in silent protest at her capers, but, after all, wasn't she of their own, of a family than which there was none bluer blooded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: De Mortuis | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...Bluer. Yes," she smiled, "much more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA FEMME SAVANTE. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...Bluer than your stockings?" said I. It was a brutal thing; I confess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA FEMME SAVANTE. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

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