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...LIAISON DANGEREUSE] The commander in chief of British forces in the American Colonies, his affair with the wife of a subordinate prompted the ditty: "Sir William, he, as snug as a flea/ Lay all this time a-snoring/ Nor dreamed of harm, as he lay warm/ In bed with Mrs. Loring...
Parkinson radiates a rare degree of stage presence--during one of Moya's frequent reveries about her late husband, he quite unintentionally steals the scene just by flopping into a snug position in his chair. The durable bond between the siblings owes much to his magnetism...
...following evening, reunited in their snug Star City quarters, Larissa Tsibliyev watched mournfully as her husband slowly ladled turnip puree onto his dinner plate...
Reading horribilious accounts of the wet, wide and awful while remaining safe, snug and dry may be a bookworm's naughty perversion. Or call it simple good sense to do one's seafaring while seated and ashore. At any rate, in this boating season armchair mariners have an unusually good selection of chilling watery chronicles to keep them landlocked...
...green, what does one make of the constantly returning memory of the Holocaust, of the refrain "Never forget! Never again!"? Specifically, what does one make now of the Jewish initiative to reopen the Swiss banks' World War II books in order to recover Jewish money deposited there, in the snug, smug, neutral Alps, as Hitler's apocalypse descended...