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Sandra practices her sirenship on Sales Manager Mansford, whose wife is pregnant; his reaction to her experimental kiss is to be sick with guilt in a carton of perfume. She even takes her clothes off and manages to get them on again before anyone really notices. Moments of truth rain devastatingly down...
...library table and an anonymous source lent a Samuel F. B. Morse portrait of Revolutionary War General John Stark. Back to the White House from a private home in Virginia came a tufted upholstered chair that was formerly in Lincoln's bedroom. Cached in a discarded scouring-pad carton in the White House basement were two sets of vermeil knives and serving spoons that belonged to President Monroe...
...been written if Branwell had not sparked his sisters' preteenage imaginations. Branwell himself reached manhood only to disintegrate. Ravaged by gin, opium, epilepsy, and an anguished sense of guilt, he died at 31. Branwell's own dying words might have been spoken by a more melancholy Sydney Carton: "In all my past life I have done nothing either great or good...
...magazine is fat with the standard phraseology of the men they profess to reject. It is not so harsh as that of the National Review, but it is all here: "reckless spending," "aggrandisement of federal power," and even "Big government." And there is also an original Dowling carton: "Labor Leaders" and "Liberal Experimenters" and "Spenders" sit grinning in a horseless cart while a wretched little man named "Taxpayers" looks on be-wildered...
...center for the campaign of Joseph P. Ward for Governor and Edward F. McLaughlin for Lieuten ant-Governor was not a festive place: the posters were rumpled, the population was reduced to a few somnolent cigar smokers, and the carton on the front desk was full of lapelless Ward buttons--although a worker remarked that they'd run out of Kennedy buttons several days ago. "I think we've got a Kennedy hat left around here somewhere," she said...