For some time now they had been suspicious of him.
This is the 1st sentence of one of Mr. Michener’s big fatties. It goes on to include numerous other sentences. The title of the big fattie in question is Chesapeake.
Folks allowed Dorothy all the room she needed whenever she stalked through Central Park wielding her whip.
Dorothy Parker spent quite a lot of time:
a. skippering a tugboat.
b. lashing about with a whip while walking through Central Park.
c. sailing the Black Sea searching for the Golden Fleece.
d. interviewing gandy dancers in the railroad yard and dancing the gandy with them.
Claude Hatfield thought he was taking a picture of a cute baby lizard on a boulder. Little did he know he would be recording his final seconds alive while at the same time capturing the lightning strike of an enraged triffid.
Loon: A hearty welcome to the 3 question interview. Our celebrity ghost today is one Jack Dempsey, a professional boxer of note, so I am told. Mr. Dempsey, a ring is round. Why is a boxing ring square?
Dempsey’s ghost: Hell, I dunno.
Loon: Who invented gloves?
Dempsey’s ghost: Kid, lemme give it to you straight. Nobody cares.
Loon: Did you ever dance with Fred Astaire?
Dempsey’s ghost: You got quite a mouth on you, bub. Want I should knock it off?
(Loon retreats from room. Dempsey’s ghost returns to his corner.)
Frozen in their stillness like grizzled centaurs in smoked buckskin, the men stared down as if bedeviled by the sparkling water.
When you’re fixin’ to write a mountain man book like this here Bloody Hand, it’s flat proper to worry out all the purple prose you can honestly haul aboard with no fear of penalty.
It’s d, d, d! Oh, she danced like crazy up and down those marble stairs!
Adele retired from show biz and married into the British aristocracy because:
a. she’d always wanted to live in a castle.
b. she’d always wanted to live in a castle and preside over tea.
c. she’d always wanted to live in a castle, preside over tea, and tell the butler ‘That will be all, Smythe’.
d. she’d always wanted to live in a castle, preside over tea, tell the butler ‘That will be all, Smythe’, and dance like crazy up and down a marble staircase whenever she felt like it.
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