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...they turned the vellum pages of temes such as the Temptation of St. Anthony or the Holy Book, Medieval monks were accustomed to jot personal commentary in the margins. Nowadays Karl Marx is more likely to provoke similar notation from the pen of Widener students...
...little lady with the bright grey eyes had peculiar tastes and peculiar ways. She would roam through back-country towns in her black Hupmobile, stopping at every antique shop and every likely-looking old house to ask permission to poke about a spell. She cared not a jot for antique furniture; what she wanted were old portrait paintings, still-lifes on velvet, birth certificates with watercolor designs around the edges, rusty weathervanes and peeling figureheads...
...TIME cannot agree with Reader Emmett that the deletions from her letter changed its gist one jot or detracted one iota from its cogency...
...says, what her husband has snitched from her column), pecks out her column. In midafternoon, she starts a round of cocktail parties (her drink: orange juice) and dinners. At these gatherings she caches her notebook in the ladies' room, makes frequent trips there to jot down the items she overhears. By 1 a.m. she is back in bed. Once a week she sees her husband, "Ghighi." They meet in New York because, says Bootsie, "He doesn't like Washington any more . . . he doesn't think the people dress well here...
...home. On an average of twice a week violent controversy has broken out, causing a dangerous rise in my father's blood pressure and frequently reducing me to tearful exasperation. But apart from this domestic disturbance, materially socialism hasn't altered our way of life one jot or tittle-despite my father's gloomy prophecies of grave drops in the family budget...