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...days after Grover Cleveland was nominated for the presidency in 1884, the Buffalo Telegraph revealed in a lead article, headlined "A Terrible Tale," that Cleveland was the father of the nine-year-old son of Maria Crofts Hatpin, a widow. Cleveland did not deny...
...famous "dagger" speech he delivers as though utterly unmoved; he seems to see at most a hatpin. At other times, in direct violation of Hamlet's advice, he tears a passion to tatters. Whatever he does, the lines just do not carry conviction; and we get, for shame, either sham or ham. In the "multitudinous seas" passage, he bids to improve on the playwright by saying, "Making the green...
...involvements with Justine, a feline Egyptian Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire husband; Melissa, a tubercular Greek dancer. There is also an assortment of other exotics, who seem to have crawled from beneath a blistered and immemorial stone of Alexandria-Scobie, the transvestite policeman; Toto de Brunei, who dies with a hatpin rammed through his brain; Capodistria, the goatish sybarite; hare-lipped Narouz, who carries a severed head in his saddlebag; Pursewarden, who has discovered "the uselessness of having opinions" and turns to the humdrum world "the sort of smile which might have hardened on the face of a dead baby...
...only 5,000 francs ($12), the prize has enough prestige to guarantee a 100,000-copy sale to the novelist who lands it. To literary onlookers, the Femina's entertainment value is even greater; although the prize was created (in 1904) to bring literary women closer together, the hatpin-tongued old fates who hand it out feud continually, and in a good season their pother can all but drown out the crash of a falling French Cabinet...
...consistent with the ad that I endorse, and therefore I regretfully withdraw (or forfeit?) or do whatever is necessary to relinquish press gallery membership. Sorry I didn't know about your rules. Shows you should always read the fine print, doesn't it?" Then, jabbing a hatpin at colleagues who appear frequently on TV's press-panel shows, Maggie noted that she must have broken the rules much earlier with her first appearance on such "sponsored television shows" as Martha Rountree's Press Conference...