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...Americans, British politicians and the Fleet Street press lords. "I'm a naughty tease," he explained. "I like to attack rich and powerful people." The London Observer mused that he was "dangerously over-inflated with hot air, bursting with ruderies, strained around the seams, self-sealing against the tin-tacks of opposition and criticism...
...made them: over an open fire wrapped around a green stick, on a flat rock under an old auto fender, on a piep an tilted in front of a fire, under an old dishpan on top of a range, on a piece of foil under a piece of corrugated-tin roof, and the product was eaten with relish by all at hand...
remember about the loft? There had been an old movie poster of Rin Tin Tin on the wall, and he and his friends had been drinking Miller High Life beer. McGee asked if a Jack Harris had been involved. The name was completely imaginary, yet soon the subject slipped it into the conversation, confessing that Harris had really been the ringleader, and was a big man who 'looks like he could kill...
Flusters the low light rising through alder tangle. A tin...
Strachey's strangest alliance was with a woman, of all people-a hoydenish little kook named Dora Carrington, described by a friend as "a tin of mixed biscuits." Carrington met him at a house party in 1915. He offended her one evening, and next morning she crept into his bedroom, intending to cut off his beard by way of revenge. Instead, she fell in love with him, and moved in to take care of him for the rest of his life. That was fine with Strachey, who later fell in love with a beau of Carrington's named...