He hesitated again before he said: “Well, we have done a lot of welfare work.“Welfare! I exclaimed. “You can boast of that? You must know what labor calls that—hellfare work."

Mc- + nuke → McNuke

The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

This letter had to be written in Deutsch because neither Paul nor Harriet knew Danish.