Their valours are not yet so combatant, Or truly antagonistick, as to fight;

Nixon, watching Reagan seemingly leave political life, “suddenly recognized what no one else seemed to: that this blankly genial, overappreciated son of a bitch, two years older than himself, was heading not for a pasture but a short stretch of wilderness, on the other side of which lay something vast.”

At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Once relegated to facelifts and fat reduction, medical tourism has branched out into almost every kind of procedure, including bypass surgery, heart-valve replacement, angioplasty, knee reconstruction, and spinal fusion.