Perhaps there's a Margaret, for the world; a Peggy, for her friends (and the odd privileged acquaintance); and then a Pegs, the secret, private bit of her who only a few get to know.
Abu Sayyaf has some curious acquaintances.
An informal poll of experts in the odd science of acquaintance revealed a few practical tips, including the need for speed and why damaged people are often good friends.
"He and his friends used to go around, cadge money from acquaintances, do odd jobs, live from hand to mouth," Mr. Abelson said of his brother.
I first made the acquaintance of this odd couple in high school.
Gatsby is keen for Nick to engineer a discreet meeting with Daisy, and whatever lucrative racket Gatsby's into, he's prepared to let Nick have a piece of it, with an introduction to his shadowy business acquaintance Wolfsheim: an odd cameo from Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan.
From being a young man whom acquaintances described as odd, he became the sole suspect in the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat from Arizona's Eighth District.
It proved a highly profitable weekend for Coward; one can't say the same for the unfortunate guests in his play, an odd assortment of friends and acquaintances who come to stay with the bohemian Bliss family at their rambling home in Cookham, Berkshire.
I was pretty much hemorrhaging money not having worked all summer save some odd jobs cobbled together from friends and acquaintances; commercial directing had slowed down to a mere trickle, and freelance production jobs offered no security.
: When speaking at the memorial service for Arthur Schlesinger Jr. a while back, Mailer made the odd comment that he was really just an acquaintance of Arthur's.
