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  • This may sound like the grovelings of an inveterate name-dropper, but I have to say that Joan is, from her Blahniks to her tight face, a totally right-on sister.

    Hey, New York: Nothin' Wrong With a Little Name-Dropping 2010

  • This may sound like the grovelings of an inveterate name-dropper, but I have to say that Joan is, from her Blahniks to her tight face, a totally right-on sister.

    Hey, New York: Nothin' Wrong With a Little Name-Dropping 2010

  • This may sound like the grovelings of an inveterate name-dropper, but I have to say that Joan is, from her Blahniks to her tight face, a totally right-on sister.

    Hey, New York: Nothin' Wrong With a Little Name-Dropping 2010

  • Ideals were here at stake — the dreams of one man as opposed perhaps to the ultimate dreams of a city or state or nation — the grovelings and wallowings of a democracy slowly, blindly trying to stagger to its feet.

    The Titan 2004

  • Ideals were here at stake -- the dreams of one man as opposed perhaps to the ultimate dreams of a city or state or nation -- the grovelings and wallowings of a democracy slowly, blindly trying to stagger to its feet.

    The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

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