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...Armenian named Dikran Kouyoumjian created a string of literary entertainments about the Bright Young People of London's Mayfair. No one was better than he at writing about "silly young Lords, who drink champagne in the morning, and marvelous new 1920s women, who swear (ever so slightly) and are bored with silly young Lords." His greatest confection was Iris March (in The Green Hat), a fell lady who seductively drops her keepsake emerald on the floor in Chapter 1, but finally dies, for love and honor, in a flaming yellow Hispano-Suiza...
...swear Dick, all he was doing was pushing his buffalo to cover...
...told you. I don't get paid but every other Friday. But next week, I swear...
Even with overtime, the Staffords always seem to end up owing. "I never can make the money go," said Mrs. Stafford. "We always run out about three days before his next paycheck. I used to swear he was spending it on the side until we sat down and went over all our expenses...
...deciding plus" in the Publication Board's decision to award his group the current HARBUS franchise. This statement is absurd. As a member of the Publications Board during the period when the current franchise was let and one who participated in all board discussions concerning that decision. I will swear under oath that Mr. Stevens' color had nothing whatsoever to do with the matter...