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If some of what follows challenges what you have come to believe about Churchill and this era, may I just say that history is a lively abode, full of surprises.

women "would do far better if the brain were very lightly tasked.

considered Churchill to be capricious

I FIRST STARTED READING about the Lusitania on a whim, following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously.

most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.

Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

They are blue. Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.

phenomenon for which the word-minting power of the German language did not fail: Zweifrontenkrieg.

Cunard tickets did not identify babies by name, possibly out of quiet resentment that they traveled free.)

All the ship had to do was make another turn, away from U-20, and the chase would be over.

There's a story that circulates among my colleagues about the sister of a general, picked up in Moscow for black market speculation.

Does this mean we can eat pie today? Easton asked. Riley let out a snorting laugh. I know someone who will be. Nice.

He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears.

Just what she needed. She was single and pregnant and her nipples had suddenly become supersensitive $luts looking for action.

Your subservience makes me uncomfortable." That pissed me off. "Then you shouldn't pay people to do things for you. End of story.

fuzzy hair that bristled out on each side above the ears

His spare frame seemed somewhat bowed under the weight of the ponderous dignity which it carried about.

Perry Mason's hand dropped to her shoulder, patted it reassuringly. It was the impersonal gesture of the protective male.

You on duty at ten this morning?" he asked the attendant. The man hesitated before answering. Mason said, "You're eligible for a five dollar reward, if you were.

He called the police and told them I was trying to blackmail him." "Were you?" "Not exactly. Bertha was trying to cut herself a piece of cake, and—" "And what?" I asked. "And the knife slipped," she said.

There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession. In this sense, what we call a creative gift is merely the social license to be obsessed.