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- Magnificent missives
From the late 1930s through the 1950s, the words “Peer's Daughter” were regularly lodged in British tabloid headlines above the startling doings of one or another of the Mitford sisters, daughters of the less startling, but equally eccentric, Lord and Lady Redesdale.
- You look mahvelous!
In today's world, we all have a shot at being beautiful. Feel cheated in the looks department? With enough money, you can nip and tuck your way to a whole new you.
- CHAPTER ONE, PAGE ONE
“The Search for John Henry: The Untold Story of an American Legend”
The story grew among black day laborers, men who laid track, drilled steel, and drove mules for the railroads in the days before gasoline. John Henry, they said, was the strongest man there was. And from his first days on the line he knew that his hammer would kill him.
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- STRICTLY FICTIONAL
Envy is in plentiful supply, but the water's drying up
It is a sad fact in a woman's life that few of her female friendships go unscorched by the embers of slow-burning envy. No matter how kindred their spirits, female friends risk burnout if a sudden rush of love, success or money upsets the careful equilibrium between them.
- 'Point' taken
In his long career as novelist, screenwriter, politician and serpent-tongued raconteur, Gore Vidal has known everybody – if not always well, then well enough to extract a good story.
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