When I saw the penny black missing from my collection in the shop window, I just went in and snapped it up.

You're going to know that it won't be long before you can eat bingefully again — the weekend will be here in no time — provided you succeed in being a good girl for the five days in between.

Only one meal a week is required, thus doing away, at one swell foop, with cooks, scullions, stewards, butlers, waiters and other tip-extractors.

Referring illustratively to the debate on industrial policy between thought leaders, . . . Yankelovitch says that below the level of media rhetoric, one can detect a core of agreement emerging because the different parties are influencing one another.