jack-a-dandy

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• ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

• Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

• By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.

• Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.

• In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.

• Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

• Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.

• He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!

• All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.

• She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.