'Time? Doesn't have much meaning when they're trying to dry you out. I rather think they gave me a shot of soap at one point.' Soap is intelligence speak for sodium pentathol.

A Signora Rossinuola, with the face of a goddess, and the voice of an angel, made her first curtsy that evening to the Neapolitans. She was received with the most rapturous applause. Nothing was heard of next day but her shake and her smile.

The reason that I knew about the male ward was because I was in an autobicycle accident on November 30, 1939, and had a broken right thighbone (above the knee) and stayed in the hospital for two weeks.

I had rather lose the battle than that sister Should loosen him and me.