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...solemn board meeting in the Château de la Muette, onetime Paris home of Baron Henri de Rothschild. They decided unanimously that, win or lose, the game must go on, at least for another year. But medievalism in the European economy was proving abominably hard to get rid...
...blue denim dress in the county jail the next day, she spoke with righteous indignation. She had been "busted" (jailed) last year for taking heroin. "But I kicked [got rid of the habit]. I have no eyes to weigh 94 lbs. again. You couldn't see me if I turned sideways." Now why, she demanded, was she put in jail merely for "smoking...
Frank had neglected to tell Art about an agreement he had made with other tenants of their apartment building. All the neighbors had decided to have an exterminator on the same day to get rid of the cockroaches in the building. One day Art received a call at his office from a neighbor, asking whether he was willing to agree on the date of "C-Day." "When I asked for more information," he says, "her voice dripped ice, and it was obvious she thought I was trying to duck my share of the expense. I explained I was not Frank...
...article in Pravda. "Cannibalistic American imperialism," wrote he, has a master plan in the works for eliminating 700 million people in Europe and Asia with a calculated program of war, starvation and disease.* The Americans now consider themselves a "master race," with a mission to rid the world of "inferior" people. "Let all people of good will in all countries of the world know these facts," wrote Aleksandrov. "Let them remember that in the person of the American imperialists and their supporters there are the bloodiest beasts, the worst enemies of humanity...
...doesn't like this part of a skipper's job, but the commodore is a determined man, and has taught himself some of the social graces. He invites small groups, in shifts, to cocktails before lunch and dinner; if they stay too long, he politely gets rid of them by saying he is needed on the bridge...