A reporter, who has worked his way up to a top-level and high pressured position with a large metropolitan daily, suffers from a chronic case of the Mondays.

I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness.

Old Mr. Lowndes, the famous Secretary of the Treasury, ‥used to say‥Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.

... cut off from their governments and obliged to rely on their own wisdom, knowledge and experience, when they had, in a word, to ambass. Nowadays they pick up the phone and the State Department, for better or worse, tells then what to do.