Word: blemished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expect that the family budget would somehow permit them to spend a peaceful year in the graduate schools. If one reads the correct meaning into the statistics, it has taken two years for college men to become conscious of the fact that the Depression was anything more than a blemish in newspaper headlines...
...again" are past. Modern pyschology has found how greatly environment affects character, but these findings accomplish little if not put to some tangible use. America has been troubled by many uprisings of this sort and while they continue the penal system of the nation appears as much a blemish upon the banishers as upon the bannished...
...tweed hat bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine boy, not a blemish, God bless him"); other boys ("hey bricktop! hey carrots"); the snow ("centuries hence, it will be long ago''). You follow his career by reading a list of Inscriptions in Sundry Places, from which you learn that he spent his boyhood in the South...
Taken all in all Petticoat Influence does not fail to be diverting However, its most serious blemish is that the author has avoided subtlety would seem from the degree of success attained, by design...
...dark corners where erring stags were won't to drink their fill. It is said that none but the brave deserve the fair and brave indeed will be the undergraduate who under threat of expulsion finds means whereby he may overlook the canker in the rose or blur the blemish on the girl of his choice...