Word: headier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complicated little story about life & love in a Manhattan residence hotel for women, untypical Miss Maxwell plays herself (explaining her presence in the unswank Sherrington as her substitute for a vacation in the mountains), popping out brisk remarks, decanting an occasional drop of the Maxwellian philosophy, which undoubtedly seems headier after 2 a. m. On cocktail parties: "They're only given for people not good enough to be asked to dinner. And because of that they stay to dinner-and supper-and breakfast." On life, as passed on by her father: "Never ... be afraid, especially never ... be afraid...
Threadneedle Street) to release him for the headier air of Fleet Street where he has been appreciated ever since...