Dolores […] kept the house clean with the orderliness of a coffin. Artificial flowers reposed waxily in glass vases.

Having won the championship, he is, needless to say, a very happy man.

Naught can come of this, you mark my words.

[Martin Luther] King [Jr.] was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. Were it not for the pair of cops who gingerly carried him from Blumstein’s department store and the pair of surgeons who performed lifesaving surgery at Harlem Hospital there would have been no I Have a Dream speech and likely no national holiday honoring him.