“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

[…] a letter from Josephson was read in which the Cafe Society op declared Heard's ork played too loud, library included too many vocal numbers and men frequently appeared dressed unpresentably, same charges he made at Tuesday's hearing, according to Buddy Busch, Heard's press rep.

Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.

[S]ocial authorities generally design and disseminate selective versions of science, religion, and media that emphasize some elements of social life (e.g., cis experience, hetero- and monosexuality, upper=class experience, endosex [i.e., non-intersex] categorization and downplay or otherwise erase other aspects of social life (e.g., Blackness or other non-white racial experience, trans experience, […]