The dogs however parted, and after a little handling by their seconds immediately returned to the charge

She offers crayfish with white feet or red . . . three ways, tends stove in high heels, slips into the small Art Deco dining room of Restaurant d'Olympe—a funeral parlor of shiny black walls and red velvet—to graze cheeks with her devotees, serious foodies, and, from ten on, tout Paris, the men as flashily beautiful as their beautiful women.

What about parents who, through fecklessness and stupidity misbeget a sequence of unwanted children and then so ill- treat or neglect them that they have to be removed from their care ?

The comedian was well known for working blue, so she seemed like an odd choice for the boy's eighth birthday party.