He smiled, showing teeth yellow from cigarette smoke. He looked at his desk diary, then at her papers again. 'Mmm... a hundred pesos a month, Why, that's one thousand two hundred pesos a year. Surely, you can afford to buy me a forty-peso dinner!'
How can Marina say no? How can she refuse the Chief's next request? He is an evil man, but she needs her promotion...
Over the last 50 years, Price Stern Sloan has published hundreds and hundreds of Mad Libs stories. Come fill out over 125 of the funniest ones in this deluxe oversize edition. This book also includes a history of the game as told by the creator Leonard Stern (complete with pictures) and stories filled out by today’s hottest stars! It’s the super-silly way to say _________ [adjective] 50th Anniversary, Mad Libs!
Aimed at teachers of young children Telling Tales in English contains photocopiable pages of well-known and much-loved stories, with accompanying activities, for use with pupils aged 8-11 years.
Each story covers a number of lessons, with a wide variety of activities, practising specific language and vocabulary. These activities are also designed to help teachers exploit other similar stories with their pupils.
Nina Reilly, local lawyer at Lake Tahoe hears all the gamblers stories - stories of their wins, divorces, bankruptcies and overdoses. Then one gambler is murdered, and suspicion falls on the winner of the biggest jackpot in Tahoe's history, Nina's client - a girl who won't tell anyone her name.