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...have roused me, you marvelous amazon. Let me kiss your lips." Curtiss put quest before scruple: "After all, I figured, the letters are unique and there are plenty of women who must like this kind of approach or he wouldn't have continued using it." In fact, the chore was less onerous than she had feared. "I must hand it to the Rumanians," she confided to her diary. "Their idea of impotence in old age is the Anglo-Saxon notion of potency in the prime of life...
...inexperienced. The dark, intense Leone holds a Ph.D. in government, teaches at Princeton and boasts of his expertise in such fields as "qualified bond programs," as well as in "kicking the cronies" but of state government. His problem is to become as well known as Bradley, no easy chore...
Investing a billion is a tiresome chore, even for a high-living heir who has spent fortunes on blondes (he has married and divorced two of them), villas, Alpine ski resorts and hunting retreats. He also owns a 124-ft. yacht and a Grumman Gulfstream jet, which whisk him to his favorite playgrounds at the Lyford Cay Club in the Bahamas, the ski slopes at Snowbird, Utah, and the big-game preserves of Kenya and Alaska...
...meantime, he presses ahead on what is surely the toughest chore of his career: using the Federal Reserve to slow the economy gradually without dipping it into recession. As Oklahoma-born Miller, who is part Indian, puts it, "We want to go through this narrow pass to the wide open space on the other side without an arrow touching...
...became totally absorbed in a craft as demanding and stubborn as she was. Regular schooling was a chore she impatiently endured; she eventually dropped out in the eleventh grade. At home, Jack's royalties were dwindling. Nancy took a job and found work for Gelsey as a child model. She detested it "because it was so upsetting to miss a class." A dance scholarship came to the rescue and put her in classes 12½ hours a week. Twice a day she and her classmate Meg Gordon donned rubber sweat pants and took turns stretching each other's legs, an ordeal...