The girls' names were April, Corinne, Gloria, Susannah, and Dahlia. I thought these names fanciful and lovely and would have liked the daughters' looks to match them, as if they were the beautiful children of an ogre in a fairy tale.

Meanwhile, Chou En-lai said in effect that a Nationalist breakthrough at Ssu-p'ing would imperil the entire communist situation in Manchuria.

[…]because the Spanish equity market was substantially over-broked even at the height of its bull market, with over 50 brokers servicing the market.

Why then Foible’s a Bawd, an Errant, Rank, Match-making Bawd.