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  • Sometimes, even in front of Mrs. Lanier's dressmaker's or her furrier's or her lingère's or her milliner's, there would be be a file of thin girls and small, shabby men, who held placards in their cold hands and paced up and down and up and down with slow, measured steps.

    —Dorothy Parker, 'The Custard Heart'

    September 16, 2008