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Visits to "grand houses," where a valet would unpack his luggage, made Chesterton uneasy. Neither he nor the valet could ever be sure what would turn up in his bags and pockets-a green glass bottle stopper and a horse pistol on one occasion; on another, "several stubs of pencil, a paperbacked murder story, some colored chalks, and a small cigar or two." Nor did anyone know what he would bring to a lecture: a Dutch audience that flocked to hear him talk on Dickens went away much enlightened on the subject of Browning...
...London's airport. Winston Churchill had urged Londoners to stay away, and a mere handful of reporters and officials were there to greet her. A black coat hiding her greyish-blue dress (she had taken a black dress with her, but there had been no time to unpack it), her face a pale, wan oval beneath a tight black hat, Elizabeth stood in the door of the plane, looking down at the bared heads of the men who had come to meet her. With a brave half smile, she came quickly down the steps. The black-clad semicircle bowed...
McCarthy said he is granting this respite so that students can unpack their cars and find parking spaces for them. But, he warns, "any cars on the streets after the two weeks will be tagged...
McCarthy said he is granting this respite so that students can unpack their cars and find parking spaces for them. But, he warns, "any cars on the streets after the two weeks will be tagged...
After three months of woman-to-woman friendship, Betty recalled in London's Sunday Pictorial, "Donna asked me if I would like to share the digs. I agreed. I watched her unpack. Donna had exquisite transparent cami-knickers, little lace panties, corsets, lots of nylons. We talked for a time. Then Donna gave me my first shock. She asked: 'Would you mind if I smoked a pipe...