Word: kingness
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...parents to not only allow but encourage reading fun books. People tend to push books that are good for you, like broccoli instead of ice cream. But if you let them read Spider-Man-I sure did-they are going to move on to Ray Bradbury and Stephen King...
...King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange...
...shook Wall Street: nearly $140 million in compensation set aside for Big Board chairman Dick Grasso. But when Grasso, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, tried in 2003 to cash in early, the revelations about his staggering paycheck triggered an imbroglio that ended his eight-year reign as King of the Club and brought a lawsuit by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Was Grasso, who was interviewed for the book, a victim of the post-Enron era or just another fat-cat CEO? Both. Gasparino insists that Grasso was "one of the most remarkable men Wall Street...
Darnton said that at a dinner Maurepas attended, Madame de Pompadour—the king’s mistress—gave white hyacinths to the king...
...term “fleurs blanches,” or white flowers, appears in the song as a play on the term “flueurs blanches,” which refers to a venereal disease—suggesting that Pompadour had infected the king...