She therefore dissuaded Julia from attempting to tamper with the honesty of a servant who had the keys of the vaults […]

I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

Clinically one sees gradually developing oedema, often a strikingly puffy face, increasing mental obtundity, the patient finally lapsing into confusion and stupor.

… in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, …