And now the muse (with courage not her own, / But that which heav'n protects with Freedom's, throne) / Has dar'd a clew-less passage to explore[…].

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.

A decade later, both Heinz and Hunt's introduced a new inverted, squeezable ketchup bottle that rested on its flip-bottom cap.