Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.

So Lacy's parents had brought her to Johns Hopkins for a hemispherectomy, which is probably the most radical procedure in neurosurgery.

As a matter of fact, a standard joke in the coffee industry during October-November was that anyone could make a fortune if he could discover a means of unroasting coffee […]