1.   As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.

2.   But it would have the momentary political charm of putting a legislative and legal end to this tawdry tale more quickly.

3.   Kessler tells the tawdry tale of the family that was once the closest thing to American royalty.

4.   Morton is relating this tawdry tale from a third-person perspective, but everyone who reads it will assume Lewinsky is the author.

5.   Mothers figure prominently in the tawdry tale.

6.   Smear the intern, spread a tawdry tale.

7.   Willie Mays, the baseball star and enduring role model, is dragged into this tawdry tale, not once but twice.