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Although generally affectionate, Virginia could also be quite harsh. The blind observance of formality, which she considered the definition of idiocy, particularly tried her patience. For example, when relatives came to visit her dying father and offer her their sympathy she fumed to Violet Dickinson, "Relatives swarm. I liken them to all kinds of parasitic animals really I think they deserve no better. Three mornings have I spent having my hand held and my emotions pumped...
When Yntema and Fullerton departed, the Crimson lost an unhealthy chunk of its first-place potential, and so Harvard will have to aim for a swarm of second through sixth place finishes. While the top 12 finishers collect points, there is a four-point gap between sixth and seventh...
Eleven-year-old Nancy Bona stepped out of her hotel room in Manchester into a swarm of fast-talking, briskly-walking giants--campaign aides to Sen. Birch Bayh (D.-Ind.) and ABC cameramen...
Feminism has set a small swarm of lightning bugs flickering, and the Times snuffs out most of them. Ms., for example, is to be used only in quoted material or in discussing the term itself. The stylebook decrees that some words whose original form includes man should remain unchanged: it proscribes chairwoman and spokeswoman on the grounds that chairman and spokesman suffice for both sexes, but it accepts assemblywoman and councilwoman. To "avoid words or phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned...
...letters were scribbled beside deathbeds. During the span of this volume, a cousin, an uncle, her mother, her stepsister, her father, her older brother and an aunt all died. She was reticent about the pain of these losses but characteristically scornful of the conventional pieties surrounding them. "The relations swarm," she wrote as her father lay dying. "Three mornings have I spent having my hand held, and my emotions pumped out of me, quite unsuccessfully...