Before giving up, she [Cathy Hughes] decided to try one more bank and they approved her.[…]Imagine if she hadn’t gone to that last bank? She wouldn’t have the media empire she has today, and have become one of the few multimillionairesses in our field.

I went out and had a chat with the foreman of the men; he clucked his tongue when he heard what had happened, and opined that I was lucky to have come off so lightly with nobody there to help me out of the machine.

When Valette, following Bonnier's philosophy, proposed to women that they adopt sexualism as their true religion, she recast an old idea.

The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, … The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.