I know you by the waggling of your head.

Small trees grow in the raingutters. The schoolyard, the vast playground where my friends and I once romped and laughed and dreamed, is enclosed by a tall chainlink fence.

whether the conclusion is prima facie r-slurred does indeed have an effect on how people respond to it, let this be a lesson to you

The armistice of November 1918 could represent many things: the end of the war, the victory. But for the Carnard [the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné], first and foremost, it represented dissention among the French. […] After the armistice and the emergence of the first difficulties of the peace, many more both on the right and in the center argued that the armistice should have been signed in Berlin—in a word, the armistice of November 11 was premature.