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...about 'er rent," Griffiths recalls. "She 'adn't any money, see? 'Pull up ter th' fire, mother,' the Major 'ud say (they still call 'im Major down Limehouse way). 'Make a pot of tea, Griff, and get a piece of cake. Now you stop crying, mother, and we'll soon get things settled.' " Such is Limehouse's loyalty to Clement Attlee that even today the patrons of the Castle pub along Commercial Road will say: "If yer wants ter get yer face bashed in, just...
...latest count, he figured his Sheraton Corp. had 31 hotels in 26 cities. His pride: Manhattan's Park Sheraton, on which he had just spent $500,000 remodeling, and which boasted a 99% occupancy. "The money spent," says Henderson, "brings back returns. We can have our cake...
...result was a squat, dumpy ziggurat tapering toward the top and crowned with a concrete blockhouse containing elevator and air-conditioning equipment. High-minded architects referred to them scornfully as "wedding-cake modern." They were white and unadorned, faceless warrens comprised of layer upon layer of strip windows alternating with concrete, like stacked sandwiches. They looked appallingly alike...
...Publisher Dewart said, were "enough to assure the economic stability of one newspaper but not enough for two . . ." Advertisers, sensing the Sun's slow eclipse, had dropped more than 1,500,000 lines in 1949. In a decade, its share of the New York advertising cake had been sliced from one-tenth to one-twentieth...
...novel (her first about contemporary life since 138's bestselling Rebecca) is so plumply padded with this sort of verbiage that it resembles a kind of composite morning & evening tummy-round, full, and yet flat as a board. Replete with bestselling ingredients. The Parasites is constructed on layer-cake lines, i.e., a chapter about the dismal present is sandwiched between two flashback chapters about the glamourous past. Three main characters, members of the Delaney family, take turns telling the story. All get their chance to report in a chapter how they were seduced in their youth...