Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When about $500 in arrears, I took stock of my position, confiding in one of the selectmen and proffering him my note in lieu of immediate cash. His attitude was, unfortunately, one of sympathy and tolerance. People are sometimes kind when strict reality is more in order...
British-born Gertrude Lawrence, a hit in London in September Tide, was deeply touched at her welcome home, and wanted all her U.S. friends to know about it. Said she in a note to Variety: "Such loving devotion after so long an absence is most moving. After all, these people have experienced great suffering, privation, and tragedy together during the twelve years I have been away...
Mahogany Exodus. Louis was a natural. He could blow clear and true, hitting the notes hard and clean. He never had to squeeze for a high one. But for three years after he got out of the Waif's Home (his mother got "a big white man" to spring him), he was too busy driving a coal wagon to blow a note. Then one night Bunk Johnson didn't turn up, and Louis sat in for him (for $1.25 a night) at Matranga's joint on Perdido Street; even the great Joe ("there...
...earliest, probably written when he was only 15,* Proust practices the mincing tones of flattery: "Madame, you are pretty, extremely pretty." He signed a note to one creature: "The most respectful servant of your Sovereign Indifference." He feigned passion, and strained for it, but could seldom find it. Later he was to admit that "I only know how to tell women I admire and love them when I feel neither one nor the other." Perhaps he remembered the letter he had written to a Creole courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with...
Mindszenty wrote his last pastoral letter. On the envelope that held it, he scribbled the now famous note to his clergy, advising them that any "confession" that might appear some day over his signature would only be the result of "human frailty." In other letters, he warned that he might be drugged and thus tricked into confessing what he had not committed...