“I, for my part, ask ⟳ any candid reader if it was not bad enough to be called Broadfoot, without having it aggravated into Stephen Broadfoot? I feel ⟳ confident I will here get ⟳ a tear ⟳ of sympathy from all unhappy Andrews and Peters, and Aarons and Samuels, with a smile ⟳ of disdainful compassion from thrice-happy Franks and Charleys and Bills.”

“It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony, a name ⟳ which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ⟳ Stephen, Peter, Michael, etc., in this country.”

“I thought that ideally it should be a name ⟳ which could work ⟳ whether he was serious and reserved or butch, a name ⟳ like ⟳ Stephen which could be Steve or David which could be Dave.”

“As part of the listing, the company is seeking to create ⟳ a third class of shares that would give ⟳ Thiel, Karp and fellow cofounder Stephen Cohen “49.999999%” of the total voting power.”

“Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have ⟳ been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own ⟳ posterior on the throne.”

“Even in her fourteenth year Miss ⟳ Stephen Norman gave promise ⟳ of striking beauty; beauty of a rarely composite character.”

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