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What would you consider the most famous example in literature? Well, probably in both Ulysses and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Norman Mailer using fug in The Naked and the Dead, which gave rise to the famous anecdote that at a party, Tallulah Bankhead - or in some versions, Dorothy Parker - came up to him and said, "So you're the young man who can't spell...
...start of World War I, Socialists and isolationists opposed the draft on the grounds of civil liberties: Charles Schenck, the general secretary of the Socialist Party of America, was convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 for distributing leaflets that urged men to resist the draft. In the famous case Schenck v. the United States, Schenck argued (unsuccessfully) that conscription was the equivalent of "involuntary servitude" and thus prohibited by the 13th Amendment...
Vincent is mum on the collaboration; a confidentiality agreement forbids her from divulging any details. But the authors behind other famous names say a variety of factors can influence how quickly a ghostwriter does her job. (See the top 10 shameless Sarah Palin spoofs...
...authored a famous 2007 study "Why Humans Have Sex." Why focus on women this time around? We discovered that women's sexual psychology turned out to be far more complex than we envisioned. [It] deserved an entire book-length treatment. (See photos: "The Best of the Bond Girls...
...Famous Hilary Duff/Olivia Burke just wants to be "normal" storyline...