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...Madam," said the foremost ghost, an imperious woman with a bullet hole in her head, "what are you doing on our roof...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok...
...matriarch of the pioneer Melendy family is Vaughan's mother, Madam Exact Melendy, a firm, perceptive, pipe-smoking, rye-drinking woman of 91. Since she was large and tired rather easily, Vaughan built her a miniature railway, running from her high-perched house to the street. Other characters include Vaughan's dull wife Emmy, who prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while...
After twelve years in her job, Madam Secretary was tired. Presumably, she had sent in her resignation many weeks ago; it had been gathering dust on Franklin Roosevelt's desk. For her successor the President was looking for somebody who probably does not exist: a man who will meet the specifications of both A.F. of L. and C.I.O., and get by Congress to boot...
...afternoon four soldiers crossed the road with the obvious intention of speaking to me. For a second I panicked, wondering what was coming, when one said, "You must excuse us, madam, but we must tell you, your two children are the most beautiful we've seen; they're so lovely." All of us in our area remarked how fond of children the Yanks were. They appeared to be perpetually surrounded by our offspring, playing with them every available minute and giving them souvenirs...