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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Cass and Cheney had their nervous moments, as Dalrymple, like a mini-Rockefeller, expanded into grain elevators, Great Lakes steam transport, and a host of related enterprises. But within just a few years it was clear that the farm operations were a spectacular success. The “Dalrymple farm” had grown to thirty thousand acres by the early 1880s,
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a bobby (another nickname, based on the name of Sir Robert Peel, the nineteenth-century Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police)
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
A small band of legislators didn’t live at the Driskill, where the bills were routinely picked up by lobbyists, but at small boardinghouses below the Capitol; the members of this band didn’t accept free lodging from the lobbyists, and they didn’t accept the “Three B’s” (“beefsteak, bourbon and blondes”) which the lobbyists provided to other
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