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In Easterns, the effete heroes get upset when the wrong kind of people join their Boston clubs, and quibble, in the style of the “Late George Apley,” about the rules when suit jackets must be worn.
Print - Presenting Kerry's New Narrative | PopPolitics.com 2004
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In Easterns, the effete heroes get upset when the wrong kind of people join their Boston clubs, and quibble, in the style of the “Late George Apley,” about the rules when suit jackets must be worn.
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In Easterns, the effete heroes get upset when the wrong kind of people join their Boston clubs, and quibble, in the style of the “Late George Apley,” about the rules when suit jackets must be worn.
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This letter is written with Apley in mid-life crisis.
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Spaulding quotes editor Edward Weeks as saying that there were people in the Back Bay who appeared at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday afternoons asking to be shown the Apley Bronzes.
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In a short but interesting May 2004 Atlantic Monthly appreciation, Martha Spaulding reports that Upton Sinclair Jungle Love received the proofs for Apley in 1936.
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Having started Apley, I expect to be trolling Ashevilles used bookstores soon.
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He had managed that no one heard the joke besides Apley and themselves, but she looked more to be pitied over it than any sea-sick maiden she blushed and stammered, and got confused by turns, until Vivian artfully shifted the topic and asked her for the pleasure of the next dance.
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera
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"This is our medical fund to keep our medical coverage so I could spend the last few years with him," said Suellen Apley.
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A distraught Apley said Sunday that at this point the family only needed financial donations to help with the burials, but they hadn't yet started making funeral arrangements.
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