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  • WASHINGTON -- The second quarter for presidential fundraising has come and gone and one thing remains conspicuou...

    GOP Presidential Field More Secretive Than Bush On Top Donors The Huffington Post News Team 2011

  • Newport, known as the Queen of Resorts, or as Elizabeth Drexel Lehr stated ironically in her memoirs: “the very Holy and Holies, the playground of the great ones of the earth from which all intruders were ruthlessly excluded,” was transformed each summer for the sole and very conspicuou [...]

    2009 July | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • Aside from the conspicuou s and orchestrated raising of the Cardinal's profile, the reality was, 800,000 Scottish Catholics or not, Shelley's role as Church spokesman remained mostly limited to response and defence rather than 'setting the agenda'.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Even if the young man had not had his conspicuou blond hair the Pachuca sweater would have assured me that h was an American, for no self-respecting Mexican would have use this sweater for other than its original purpose: to keep sheeph warm in the mountain pastures.

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • He was chosen a member of that House in the same year with the kte Lord Chatham and the first Lord Lyttelton, and soon becamea conspicuou/speaker.

    Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A. 1812

  • RebelSoul: Hundreds of thousands are protesting in the streets and their rhymney 34 minutes ago (11:57 PM) Ordinary people have weddings and serve wedding cakes, what is your point? rhymney: Ordinary people have weddings and serve wedding cakes, what is Candide33 18 minutes ago (12:13 AM) Remember that the queen called off the Christmas party for the royal servants because she said it would not be right to have displays of conspicuou ­s consumptio­n during such hard times?

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

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