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...plans, however, are set awry when the embezzler slanders the name of Jane Otterburn, a beautiful puritanical woman with hints of deep sexuality, and Simon challenges the knave to a duel...

Author: By Emily G.W. Chau, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Old-Fashioned Romance | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...TRIATHLON Samantha McGlone, Otterburn Park, Que. Brent McMahon, Victoria, B.C. Carol Montgomery, North Vancouver Jill Savege, Penticton, B.C. Simon Whitfield, Kingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canadians at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...nonchurchgoing Roman Catholic, but a devout snob and a glutton, a sexman and a Potterish ployman of epic pretensions. His exploits in one-upmanship take the form of a baroque conversational style, impeccable scholarship in cigars, and a collection of snuffboxes with appropriate snuff (antelope horn for the Otterburn mix). He hates progress, Protestants, Negroes, Jews, Americans, today and tomorrow. Such a man, Amis implies, has done very nicely thank-you in England, but in the U.S. he suffers cruel and unusually funny punishment for all these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beastly Business | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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