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...Saturday, after nightfall, Stephen Ward and some of the girls were bathing in the swimming pool when one of them, Christine Keeler, whilst she was in the water, took off her bathing costume, throw it on the bank, and bathed naked.....Soon afterwards (the rest of the party) came to watch the bathing...Christine rushed to get her swimming costume. Stephen Ward threw it to one side so Christine could not get it and Christine seized a towel to hide herself. Lord Astor and Mr. Profume arrived at this moment and it was all treated as a place...
Then suddenly, its beat was stopped; the silence could almost be felt; until, after a pause, it was broken again by the sharper, more compelling clamour of the "algetas" (panpipes) and "gangas" (small kettle drums controlled by squeezing the strings under the arm pit whilst being beaten) of the challengers...
...called rational consciousness, he felt, is only one special kind of consciousness, "whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different." Though one can live an entire lifetime without knowing about them, James writes, the proper drug or other stimulus will promptly make them accessible...
...mean sentence lengths in their known Federalist Papers are 34.55 words for Hamilton, 34.59 for Madison. Which twin gets the credit? Procedure: Determine how often each man used 30 key words-"function" words such as an, on, to, by, of, this, also, and "markers" such as vigor, direction, whilst, upon. In his known writings, for example, it turns out that Hamilton used upon at a rate of three per 1,000 words-or 18 times more often than Madison. The next step was to compile statistical profiles of the authors' known styles and the disputed Papers. To compare...
This well-endowed young woman, when preparing to meet her beau, would stand the candlestick on the said protuberances whilst combing her hair. In those days, both skirts and hair were long, and, apparently, other statistics were in like proportion. At any rate, my old friend refers to them as the good old days...