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    the colour of children's pee, being peered and sniffed at, rolled round
    the shrinking tongue and forced down somehow by parties of young
    technology dons from Cambridge or junior television producers and their
    girls.
    The Green Man (1969) ch. 1
    Dixon...tried to flail his features into some sort of response to humour.
    Mentally, however, he was making a different face and promising himself
    he'd make it actually when next alone. He'd draw his lower lip in under
    his top teeth and by degrees retract his chin as far as possible, all this
    while dilating his eyes and nostrils. By these means he would, he was
    confident, cause a deep dangerous flush to suffuse his face.
    Lucky Jim (1953) ch. 1
    Alun's life was coming to consist more and more exclusively of being told
    at dictation speed what he knew.
    The Old Devils (1986) ch. 7
    Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
    One Fat Englishman (1963) ch. 3. See also Cyril Connolly (3.85) and
    George Orwell (15.24)
    He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did
    not attend was Catholic.
    One Fat Englishman (1963) ch. 8
    1.35 Maxwell Anderson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1888-1959
    But it's a long, long while
    From May to December;
    And the days grow short
    When you reach September.
    September Song (1938 song; music by Kurt Weill)
    1.36 Maxwell Anderson and Lawrence Stallings =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    Maxwell Anderson 1888-1959
    Lawrence Stallings 1894-1968
    What price glory?
    Title of play (1924)
    1.37 Robert Anderson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1917-
    All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little
    tea and sympathy.
    Tea and Sympathy (1957) act 1
    1.38 James Anderton =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1932-
    God works in mysterious ways. Given my love of God and my belief in God
    and in Jesus Christ, I have to accept that I may well be used by God in
    this way [as a prophet].
    In radio interview, 18 Jan. 1987, in Daily Telegraph 19 Jan. 1987
    Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a
    human cesspit of their own making.
    Speech at seminar on AIDS, 11 Dec. 1986, in Guardian 12 Dec. 1986
    1.39 Sir Norman Angell =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1872-1967
    The great illusion.
    Title of book (1910), first published as "Europe's optical illusion"
    (1909), on the futility of war
    1.40 Maya Angelou (Maya Johnson) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1928-
    I know why the caged bird sings.
    Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul
    Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of
    Quotations (1979) 567:10
    1.41 Paul Anka =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1941-
    And now the end is near
    And so I face the final curtain,
    My friend, I'll say it clear,
    I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
    I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and ev'ry highway
    And more, much more than this. I did it my way.
    My Way (1969 song; music by Claude Fran�ois and Jacques Revaux)
    1.42 Princess Anne (HRH the Princess Royal) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1950-
    It could be said that the Aids pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by
    the human race against itself.
    In Daily Telegraph 27 Jan. 1988
    1.43 Anonymous =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    Access--your flexible friend.
    Advertising slogan for Access credit cards, 1981 onwards, in Nigel Rees
    Slogans (1982) p. 91
    All the way with LBJ.
    US Democratic Party campaign slogan, in Washington Post 4 June 1960
    American Express?...That'll do nicely,