Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms aft...er dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The populations of Pwllheli, Criccieth, Portmadoc, Borth, Tremadoc, Penrhyndeudraeth,... Were all assembled. Criccieth's mayor addressed them First in good Welsh and then in fluent English,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned,... Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty ... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears... streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But could a dream send up through onion fumes Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes... And yesterday's garbage ripening in the hall, Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms Even if we were willing to let it in,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at ano...ther man's table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one's self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or... a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »