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...went to shower, came back out [and] my laptop was gone,” he said...
...Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast, Catharine Ray chatters away. She makes him sugar plums, which he pronounces better than any he has ever tasted. A few days later, they set off for Rhode Island. It is a wintry journey marked by "a wrong road and a soaking shower" and an icy hill that has their horses stumbling so badly they are "no more able to stand than if they had been shod on skates," he later recalls. But they talk for hours on end, mutually smitten. Back in Philadelphia, he responds to her first letter with rhapsody...
...components of Naval Academy life serve to build the whole person,” says the USNA website. As I jog away and head home to shower, I know the plebes sweating in the field behind me are on their way to greatness...
...novel based on his time in Asia. It is not a great book - as a novelist, Orwell had less depth than his near contemporaries, Graham Greene and Anthony Powell - but it is bleakly unsettling, as page after page of racism and cruelty leaves you feeling in need of a shower. Yet Orwell never thought that the evil of imperialism resided solely in its exploitation of "natives." He was just as interested in its corrosive effect on those who claimed to bring civilization to the unlettered heathen. Imperialism, says a British timber merchant in Burmese Days, speaking to an Indian doctor...
...CHANGED THE WAY YOU COMB YOUR HAIR. WAS THIS A BIG DECISION IN YOUR LIFE? [Laughs.] It was not. I combed it that way once after taking a shower, and Judith said it looks nicer that way. I said, Well, maybe I'll keep it that...