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...little son Michael, his brother Nicholas and Queen Mother Marie, would go to worship in the 270-year-old Cathedral, which stands high above Bucharest's gardens and gilt cupolas. Someone would throw a grenade, another and another into the midst of the royal worshippers. Entirely rid of its eccentric royal family, Rumania would be ready for a military dictatorship. One chore would remain and that would be to go to the villa hard by the king's palace and kill red-haired Magda Lupescu, the Jewess whose company Carol cannot long do without, whose power over Carol...
...simple-minded Harriet for her money, he thought not only of himself but of his artist brother and his lovely sister-in-law. At first the money was enough, but later each of the group thought how much better it would be without Harriet, contrived ways to be rid of her for good...
...jealous Legs who first discovers that his rival is the convict. On we go still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant. With a wow of an ending, numerous snow bound school children are rescued by the fugitive from justice, pretty Letty gets rid of her gangster admirer who admits defeat with a broad smile, and Porter gets a pardon...
...Correct English" is an unrealistic, pedantic legend, and the quicker we get rid of it, the better. For authorities I refer the Doctor to any elementary course in linguistic science, and to Dr. Edward Sapir, [Sterling professor] of the Yale University Department of Anthropology and Linguistics and head of a committee to bring out a New English Grammar to describe the language as it really is instead of for harassing school children with artificial, pseudo-classical prescriptions and "rules"-or to anybody who has at least an inkling of the true nature of language and its principles...
...after week, month after month, with nothing done. But. like most Frenchmen, honest "Gastounet" is at heart extremely conservative. He may adopt such simple superficial reforms as commend themselves to his cautious Gallic mind. But anyone who expects him to remake the legislative and political machine of France, to rid it of blocs, to break with deep-rooted traditions, is likely to be disappointed...