Words to live by.In his monthly editor's column, Paris Notes publisher Mark Eversman (NL/NL 4/30/01) recounts a phone call he received from a lady who offered to trade her "Paris secrets" ("Things in Paris that no Americans know about") for a comp comp See comparison. subscription. She reported she had 50 of them, restaurants, gardens, hotels, more in a secret notebook she kept in a locked drawer A person who orders a bank to withdraw money from an account to pay a designated person a specific sum according to the term of a bill, a check, or a draft. An individual who writes and signs a Commercial Paper, thereby becoming obligated under its terms. ("just in case some mad Parisphile broke into her house, I suppose"). Eversman was tempted, figuring at his subscription price of $39, it worked out to 78[cts.] a secret--a bargain for bargain for Verb to anticipate the CIA--but he eventually concluded the conversation: "I told her I had a secret for her. I don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. give away subscriptions." |
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