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...Ross and Kathleen Ryall had been childhood friends. Ross, newly in love with his old flame and desperate at the thought of losing her again, had faked his death and joined Mrs. Ryall. Moving first to London and then to a house in the country (which bore, by the sheerest chance, the motto: "To live happily, let us live hidden"), Mr. and ' Mrs. Sydney Davies-as they called themselves-had lived happily thereafter on Mrs. Ryall's money...
...dreaminess. She had an unshakable faith in her voices and her mission because it could never occur to her to doubt them; hers was a kind of fanatic's certitude, not a heretic's defiance, less a refusal to "reason" or listen or obey than the sheerest incapacity...
...Sheerest Flattery. Stevenson's blast certainly demonstrated one thing: Estes is on his mind. Most of last week Stevenson was busy paying Kefauver the sincerest form of flattery. Rolling into Jacksonville on a one-day drive to win friends and influence Florida's May 29 primary, Stevenson stopped off on Main Street, where he popped in and out of half a dozen stores, shaking hands and telling all comers, "I'm Adlai Stevenson, and I need your support." In Kefauver's underdog tone, Adlai solemnly assured newsmen that he faced "an uphill battle" in Florida. (When...
...aide a paper and ordered: "Send this to Gettysburg . . . Seems self-explanatory-but add any necessary comment." A telephone rang. Adams picked it up. "That's right," he said. "Yeah ... Let's try it." He hung up (Adams considers the words hello and goodbye to be the sheerest waste of time). Next, Adams left his office to talk with his secretaries in an adjoining room. He returned, minus his hat and coat, in about ten minutes, sat down, turned to the visitor, and said: "Yeah, go ahead...
NYLON stockings will soon be sheerer. Karl Lieberknecht, Inc. of Reading, Pa., one of the top knitting-machine makers, is producing a new 75-gauge knitter (current highest: 72 gauge) that will turn out the sheerest stockings ever made from 12-denier nylon staple...