Margaret Halsey
Margaret Halsey
Margaret Halseywas an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Towards Somegrew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies. It won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association...
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ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
drinking flocks spokes
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
white anxiety fifty
I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.
democracy demand suspension
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.
hero democracy doe
democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
doctors people drs
people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
fire hot nerves
I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
oxford mind visitors
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
shoes looks england
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any ...
food thinking may
It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
equality assumption feels
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
wind tables rags
the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
envy jerusalem sides
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
sex business roles
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
teaching learning example
Example is better than precept.