When Valette, following Bonnier's philosophy, proposed to women that they adopt sexualism as their true religion, she recast an old idea.

The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, … The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.

Before giving up, she [Cathy Hughes] decided to try one more bank and they approved her.[…]Imagine if she hadn’t gone to that last bank? She wouldn’t have the media empire she has today, and have become one of the few multimillionairesses in our field.

I went out and had a chat with the foreman of the men; he clucked his tongue when he heard what had happened, and opined that I was lucky to have come off so lightly with nobody there to help me out of the machine.