In the Connecticut town where the writer lives, there are a few splendid machines still in daily operation.
As President Obama contemplates his recent poor poll numbers, he may want to recall that Thomas Jefferson once quipped that the presidency was "a splendid misery and a daily loss of friends".
Since becoming Speaker of the House, John Boehner must feel a little like President Thomas Jefferson who once quipped that his job was a "splendid misery and a daily loss of friends".
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New York dailies thus had a splendid week, reaching new heights of dudgeon.
But Monkey is sure Sputnik spent all night telling another of its guests, Daily Mail diarist Richard Kay, what a splendid event it was.
Tomasso Aquinta, the chef, specializes not in cutting-edge surprises, but in splendid renditions of Italian classics with a few flourishes among the daily offerings.
The US imported Rhodesian chrome, British oil firms delivered petrol and two planeloads of splendid Rhodesian beef, passed off as from Zaire, went on sale daily at London's Smithfield meat market.
Come now, you've seen the look that beams so unnervingly from the faces of Antony Sher and Harriet Walter, the show's splendid stars, and if you're a New Yorker, you encounter it daily.
Time, a magazine whose editors, after all, have daily experience with overcooked prose, was not wrong in seeing something splendid in the badness of Condon's book.
