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"It's just something that only luck or an accident can mend," said the nerve specialist. "Time may do it but I doubt it. Sometimes just a word-the right word-will set the thing in motion again. Does he get any letters?"

— Edna Ferber One basket (1947)

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It takes a brave, courageous, determined woman to make tea biscuit for no one but herself.

A woman can look both moral and exciting—if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Bernie occupied the great leather chair by the fire, a modish semi-invalid in his Charvet dressing gown of maroon faille brought from Paris by Lotta.

Come and get it (1935)

The persecution, torture, and death of six million European Jews had actually brought little or no protest from a Christian world whose religion was based on the teachings of a Jew.

One basket (1947)

On his face was a queer look-the look of one who is embarrassed because he is about to say something honest.

One basket (1947)

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