Michael Malone - Weebly

ecause Ernest Ransom, a native Dingleyan, was
president of the Ransom Bank and the most influential
man in town. So the Three Graces (with Priss added)
were back together. They lived on Elizabeth Circle,
they gave each other dinner parties, they played bridge
and a little golf and tennis at the Dingley Club, they took
one of Beanie's trains into Manhattan every Wednesday
to see shows and shops and occasionally doctors. They
had numbers of projects and belonged to many
organizations. On Mondays, like today, they held
meetings of the Thespian Ladies Club.
Now, over daiquiris at the Prim Minster, their
efficient club president, Tracy Canopy, was reading
aloud: "'The Stabbo-Massacrism Band, which in the last
year has frenzied young British audiences with its filthy
talk and spittle, found their entire tour canceled
Thursday when towns throughout the United Kingdom
learned of their having vomited on a member of the
Royal Family during a private performance following the
marriage of the Earl of Swithorne's daughter to the son
of Sheikh Qaru of Grosvenor Square. "Rock and roll is
all very well," commented the best man, George St.