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For George is an old gray cat who has accumulated a hatred of people and things so intense that even hidden upstairs he communicates his prayer that you will go away. If the bomb should fall and wipe out every living thing except Miss Brace, George would be happy. That’s the way he would design a world if it were up to him.
John Steinbeck • Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
a madman who had come to them with better credentials than brains.
Jack London • The People of the Abyss
one of the old hands had been put in his place. Hence in the future I
Charles A. Siringo • A Texas Cowboy
E.B. White • Here is New York (1949)

Edward VII ruled the British Empire with a slightly pudgy cigar-stained hand, assuring his subjects that duty was important but so too was fun. “It doesn’t matter what you do,” he said, “so long as you don’t frighten the horses.”
Erik Larson • Thunderstruck
Edmund Scot who came aboard from the Bantam factory. His ‘extraordinarie