Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every summer, as the best resort from heat and the vapors, the Bullfinches, Allstovers, Timberlakes et al. go to Mary's Neck on the Maine Coast. There they loll on the beaches, collect antiques, sunburns and memories for their coming hibernations in more urban homes...
...Roosevelt maintains that they are "debts of honor" and therefore should be discharged at all costs. Perhaps what we need here is again a "little horse sense." "Debts of honor" is a nice sounding phrase, but it might be well to inquire whether our real moral duty is to collect these sacred obligations or to try to get the world back on its feet again and disregard obsolete catchwords in the process...
...wire collect to the CRIMSON...
...wire collect to the CRIMSON...
Englishwomen hailed the decision as giving them new freedom. Surly male editors pointed out that women already have more freedom than men because: 1) a woman may collect damages if charged with infidelity, but a man must prove pecuniary loss; 2) money passing from wife to husband is a loan, from husband to wife a gift; 3) a deserting wife must be taken back, but one husband could not get a separation even after his wife had chopped him with a butcher knife...