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Unfortunately, the penchant to give parties for eligible young officers is not confined to schools, which have an abundant supply of equally eligible young ladies, Mrs. Giard has had to protect "her boys" from the wiles of fond mothers who wished to palm off their less popular daughters on the unsuspecting...
Take another general - Tulienev. You describe him as bemoustached, fun-loving, expert on mountain warfare and fond of skiing to the front lines. Can it be that the first two items were imagined by your editors after a look at his photograph (after all, a grinning man might be fun-loving) ? Can it also be that your editors have missed that issue of the Times which reported it's been raining in the Caucasus all through the current campaign, and that the Red troops have been slogging through the mud? Would that not make it difficult...
...dark green in color, curving slightly, with long and distinctively curved tips. . . ." Peter Henderson & Co. had a Coreless Carrot whose "beautiful appearance alone wins favor for it wherever grown. ... Its coreless, rich red-orange flesh possesses a sweet, melting tenderness that appeals even to those who otherwise are not fond of carrots...
...swept through behind you, fond Inch, swell-chested and sure. They doubted at first, but you never let us flounder, Inch. Swirl of summer heat, of lowly monetary battles, of drafting blue prints, of slowly rising waves, and the gay, milling mob mounting the crest of the stone-rimmed hill. You took us to the gods that were friends, with more yes and less no. The four of us, you with us, Inch, held fast to the heritages the banal would storm and rip open...
...like women and I can recall a few instances where women have been known to be rather fond of me, but I am going to like women a hell of a lot less, if I ever get back to the old country...