The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; though, if the applicants seemed unsatisfactory to Patty, in many cases she was no less so to them.

If I think they're a jerk who's using a march to show how cool and open minded they are, I pull out the ol' clue by four.

[…] to members of their own family, intimates (especially their godsibs), and ideally the priest, who usually is too busy to accept all invitations.

An endeavor to introduce the biological species concept into paleontologic species has been explored by many progressive paleontologists. But, no such contribution has ever been made in paleophycology.