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tweedy
1. tweedy suit with a waistcoat, but this time he was alone and carrying an attaché case
2. love with the color yellow, and he noticed a Tweedy Bird on the ground
3. He told her it would be a churchy-type group, so she dressed in staid, tweedy attire
4. —Bloom, he said, Madame Marion Tweedy that was, is, I mean, the soprano
5. Pride of Calpe's rocky mount, the ravenhaired daughter of Tweedy
6. (Major Tweedy and the Citizen exhibit to each other medals, decorations, trophies
7. On the other hand he had a distinct and painful recollection they paid his wife, Madam Marion Tweedy who had been prominently associated with it at one time, a very modest remuneration indeed for her pianoplaying
8. Beside the young man he looked also at the photo of the lady now his 1440 legal wife who, he intimated, was the accomplished daughter of Major Brian Tweedy and displayed at an early age remarkable proficiency as a singer having even made her bow to the public when her years numbered barely sweet sixteen
9. He also yielded to none in his admiration of Rossini's Stabat Mater, a work simply abounding in immortal numbers, in which his wife, Madam Marion Tweedy, made a hit, a veritable sensation, he might safely say, greatly adding to her other laureis and putting the others totally in the shade, in the jesuit fathers' church in upper Gardiner street, the sacred edifice being thronged to the doors to hear her with virtuosos, or
10. to Miss Marion (Molly) Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?
11. The face of her father, the late Major Brian Cooper Tweedy, Royal Dublin
12. gunfire for the men to cross the lines and the warden marching with his keys to lock the gates and the bagpipes and only captain Groves and father talking about Rorkes drift and Plevna and sir Garnet Wolseley and Gordon at Khartoum lighting their pipes for them everytime they went out drunken old devil with his grog on the windowsill catch him leaving any of it picking his nose trying to think of some other dirty story to tell up in a corner but he never forgot himself when I was there sending me out of the room on some blind excuse paying his compliments the Bushmills whisky talking of course but hed do the same to the next woman that came along I suppose he died of galloping drink ages ago the days like years not a letter from a living soul except the odd few I posted to myself with bits of paper in them so bored sometimes I could fight with my nails listening to that old Arab with the one eye and his heass of an instrument singing his heah heah aheah all my compriments on your hotchapotch of your heass as bad as now with the hands hanging off me looking out of the window if there was a nice fellow even in the opposite house that medical in Holles street the nurse was after when I put on my gloves and hat at the window to show I was going out not a notion what I meant arent they thick never understand what you say even youd want to print it up on a big poster for them not even if you shake hands twice with the left he didnt recognise me either when I half frowned at him outside Westland row chapel where does their great intelligence come in Id like to know grey matter they have it all in their tail if you ask me those country gougers up in the City Arms intelligence they had a damn sight less than the bulls and cows they were selling the meat and the coalmans bell that noisy bugger trying to swindle me with the wrong bill he took out of his hat what a pair of paws and pots and pans and kettles to mend any broken bottles for a poor man today and no visitors or post ever except his cheques or some advertisement like that wonderworker they sent him addressed dear Madam only his letter and the card from Milly this morning see she wrote a letter to him who did I get the last letter from O Mrs Dwenn now what possessed her to write from Canada after so many years to know the recipe I had for pisto madrileno Floey Dillon since she wrote to say she was married to a very rich architect if Im to believe all I hear with a villa and eight rooms her father was an awfully nice man he was near seventy always goodhumoured well now Miss Tweedy or Miss Gillespie theres the piannyer that was a solid silver coffee service he had too on the mahogany sideboard then dying so far away I hate people that have always their poor story to tell everybody has their own troubles that poor Nancy Blake died a month ago of acute neumonia well I didnt know her so well as all that she was Floeys friend more than mine poor Nancy its a bother having to answer he always tells me the wrong things and no stops to say like making a speech your sad bereavement symphathy I always make that mistake and newphew with 2 double yous in I hope hell write me a longer letter the next time if its a thing he really likes me O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all in this place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter his wasnt much and I told him he could write what he liked yours ever Hugh Boylan in old Madrid stuff silly women believe love is sighing I am dying still if he wrote it I suppose thered be some truth in it true or no it fills up your whole day and life always something to think about every moment and see it all
13. Billy would probably never return there, either, but the memory of that tweedy soft homeboy, the boyfriend, seemed to speak to D
14. Christopher Browne of Tweedy Browne Global Value Fund, William Nygren of the Oakmark Fund, Robert Rodriguez of FPA Capital Fund, and Robert Torray of the Torray Fund all suggest looking at the daily list of new 52-week lows in the Wall Street Journal or the similar table in the “Market Week” section of Barron’s
15. Tweedy Browne’s selections have sunk even well below that level in terms of name recognition
16. Several years ago, when Wells Fargo Bank looked like a promising investment to the value firm Tweedy, Browne, the company was about to assign an analyst to study Wells Fargo in detail
17. Tweedy, Browne reassigned the analyst and simply bought the stock
18. The Schlosses still sublet from Tweedy, Browne, although they have moved into a full-sized room
19. But no one was looking, least of all Miss Tweedy
20. Tweedy Bird, he thought with a grin
21. Sullivan hung back in the shade as Tweedy passed under a streetlamp
22. NO DUMMY, THAT TWEEDY BIRD—her mama didn’t raise any foolish daughters
23. In previous versions of this book, I recommended Acorn International and Tweedy Browne Global Value funds for this purpose, and in fact these choices have done quite well over the past few years
24. The Tweedy, Browne firm has a long record of consistent value investing; one could easily split one’s investments between their American and Global Value funds
25. I’d like to believe that the same will not happen to Tweedy, Browne, but if history is any guide, it probably will
26. Tom handed him a white shirt from the pile and tied one of his own ties, a brown tweedy affair, around his neck
27. Tweedy, Browne Company LLC, What Has Worked in Investing: Studies of Investment Approaches and Characteristics Associated with Exceptional Returns, 1992
28. What Has Worked in Investing: Studies of Investment Approaches and Characteristics Associated with Exceptional Returns (Tweedy, Browne Company LLC), 41–42
