Mr. MacPherson and Mr. Goode also built the Bowery Hotel and renovated the portholed Maritime Hotel, at 16th and Ninth Avenue, built in the 1960s for sailors.

Fugly? Like extra-double ugly with cheese. It's when ugly goes off the scale. She looked like an angry handbag. Billie squawked in delight.

If the chemicals are too strong, or the sheets remain too long in the bath, or are not thoroughly cleansed from the bleach before they are re-sized, the certain seeds of decay are planted in the paper, and … in the course of a few years the enemy will appear, the fibre will decay, and the existence of the books will terminate in a state of white tinder.

Sermons were not encouraged, as the demand on the use of the famous altar by visitant priests and their pilgrims was heavy on Sunday mornings, and even a short sermon held up the next Mass on the list.