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...mind spin back to livelier days. He remembered his devilish sister Lucy, who willfully eloped with Puggy Brown, the butcher; Lucy had scrubbed floors, suffered humiliation and yet found happiness in Puggy's gypsy crusade as leader of a revivalist sect. He remembered his own brilliant brother Edward, who rose to power as a Liberal politician and later came to a colorful, if disappointing, end. These people had made mistakes, thought Tom, but they had taken chances. They had been of the real England "whose nature was rather affection than passion; whose gaiety was rather humor than wit; whose...
...blonde's shapely body was pushed slowly against the whirring circular saw. In the orchestra pit, the musicians shielded their instruments and cowered under sheets of butcher paper. The saw ripped menacingly through the girl's clothes, bit into her midriff, began to spew what looked exactly like blood and entrails all over the stage and into the audience. Women shrieked and fainted. Finally, with the blonde all too realistically sawed in half, Argentine Illusionist Richiardi Jr. invited the spectators up for a closer look. Hundreds trooped onstage, stared at the gory shambles and the blonde (still intact...
...There were never less than seven of us in the house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets (as an errand boy for the butcher), he was usually absorbed in an adventure story-Rider Haggard or Baroness Orczy...
...Lord Woof-Woof" to the Laborites) put the whole machinery of the national party into high gear. Money, pamphlets and speakers poured into the district. From almost every street corner Tory sound trucks and mobile movie units blared out statistics compiled at the Conservative Political Education Center. Telephone boxes, butcher shops, dance halls, pubs and public lavatories blossomed with posters asking a vote for Fell...
...good fellow while trying to be happy and be himself. Marquand's female characters are unfinished portraits, and he knows it. "I have never had a female character really steering. They are usually officious people who are rocking the boat and are worried about the butcher bill and the cat. My first wife thinks all the women are based on her, and my second wife thinks all the women are based...