Mayor Rosenbaum: Considering the seriousness of the situation—hehe, not to mention my impending reelection campaign—I'm setting up a task force to deal with the gnome-nappings. Officer Halcroft will get right on it.

Was this stupid system, so cruel, so crushing, and producing at the top such absurd results as flashy, insolent autos and silly palaces and overfed, overdressed women, and dogs in jeweled collars, and babies of wealth brought up by low menials—was this system really the best?

After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline[…].

After earlier years when the family had been accused of being stuffy and hidebound, members now started behaving as though they were in a never-ending soap opera.