He says, he bit in his rage as best he could, took his hat, pretended business, and walked the three out, instead of kicking them out.

The singer's voice was muffled by the thick walls, yet Tyrion knew the verse.

Finally, the building’s owners made their move, and in 1999 Mr. DiPrinzio joined the tenants committee that negotiated a noneviction condominium conversion plan and a 40 percent insiders’ discount.

[H]e set fondly and furiously to work upon [Thomas] Simpson's Euclid, … The smooth grassy sod answered all the purposes of the abacus, and the cows generously supplied him in a substitute for sand. Spreading and smoothing that substitute with his bear foot, he engraved upon it with his finger the mystic lines and letters; and, with book in hand, proceeded to establish the elementary principles of geometry, …