Word: martha
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...Jefferson still intrigues Americans for another reason: his tantalizing inner complexity. The tall, soft-spoken Virginia squire who loved fine wines and whose enormous book collection became the core of the Library of Congress was no unfeeling, detached egghead but a passionate, somewhat elusive human being. When his wife Martha died in 1782, he wrapped a lock of her hair with a scrap of paper containing an excerpt from the couple's favorite novel, Laurence Sterne's comic masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, and stashed the token in his desk. Four years later, while serving in Paris as Minister to France...
...enough to proceed. And it seems that immediately on his arrival at home, he took another journey to my brother's where he died. I am sorry for him as well as sensible he leaves a void in my [domestic] administration which I cannot fill up. --I must get Martha or yourself to give orders for bottling the cyder in the proper season in March. There is nobody there but Ursula who unites trust & skill to do it. She may take any body she pleases to aid her. I am in hopes if any keys had been delivered to Jupiter...
...been in conclave ever since 2. aclock yesterday. 25. balots have been taken at intervals of from half an hour to an hour. They were invariably 8. 6. & 2. divided. I can venture nothing more by the post but my affectionate salutations, to yourself & my dear Martha...
...miss my old job terribly." MARTHA STEWART, convicted former CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, who is scheduled to be sentenced this month on charges related to her sale of ImClone stock...
...hard to believe that a woman facing prison time still cares about crafting belts out of festive grosgrain ribbon. But the namesake company of lifestyle maven MARTHA STEWART hopes you do. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia struck a deal with the Style Network to continue airing Martha Stewart Living, which many stations dropped after Stewart's conviction on four felony counts in March. Style will air mainly reruns from 11 seasons of Living, but the network has ordered four new specials about weddings, which the Martha Stewart Weddings magazine staff will help produce. A company spokeswoman says the Style deal...