gertrude

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• Some scientists called Gertrude’s introduction just an attention-grabbing stunt.

• [Director] Naomi Foner is the one that told me that Gertrude Stein quote.

• But it was Gertrude Bell, who was never a public figure, who had left the greater mark on the Middle East, for better or worse.

• So welcome back, Edna and Ethel; come on down, Gertrude and Percy; walk right in, Wilhelmina and Wolfgang.

• This Regular version sometimes sounds like the near sequiturs of Gertrude Stein or her clever admirer Donald Barthelme.

• Malcolm is fluent in the ruses of modernist fiction (consider her profiles of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Two Lives).

• Gertrude had never given him occasion to feel that his guests could have a more efficient hostess than his secretary.

• Then Gertrude quivered slightly, and the blood flushed in her set face and passed as fierce heat passes through iron.

• And the look went from Jane's face, and Brodrick felt annoyed with Gertrude because she had made it go.

• As he was trying to catch the look, Gertrude came and said it was the Baby's tea-time, and carried him away.

• Gertrude approached me, and said in a low tone: 'Did demoiselle remark that we only mounted five steps after leaving the court?'