tho’, they’ll, ’65, ’ospital

[…] if we can train “naturally” antagonistic animals, such as dogs and cats or cats and mice, to live together peacefully—which we definitely can—we can also encourage “naturally” antagonistic humans to behave much less assaultively.

Nevertheless, even for a country bank, the unpredictable can loom large in the management of its reserve position.

It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon.