Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city agreed with Addie?regular hours, meals with green vegetables, sliding down the brass fireman's-pole and running upstairs to do it again. As years went by and she still came and perched on his bed in her nightie to kiss him good morning, Jim trembled to see her French blood fast rounding and ripening her into a woman. The city agreed with Mr. Fippany, too. Long a jaunty gambler, he pulled his hat devilishly over one brown eye and drove about the city, his two mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk...
...Fippany fared not so well. On one occasion she nearly died of appendicitis. Before the operation she asked Jim to take Addie as his wife, and Jim promised, with the mental reservation that Addie should choose for herself when she grew...
Addie had already chosen, with all her young heart; she wore Jim's ring and thought about him every moment. Jim had to thunder at himself to withstand her and make her go to college...
There was a voluptuous and most unscrupulous model among the "guests" Minnie Febber. Unable to seduce Jim, she made a dead set for Mr. Fippany, wealthy now and in his dangerous forties. Jim, always an idler, watched the danger menacing his friends' happiness until it was almost too late. How he acted at the last moment, what he staked, at what odds, and lost, is too finely and poignantly told in the book to repeat here. Suffice it that Jim seems too good to be true and yet is true; and that there is a last chapter, where the Star...
...they seldom ring true. Sir James Barrie can do them, child that he is. Bonn Byrne's wistful blarney gets astonishing effects. Christopher Morley's vein is more magical; the tail of his kindly eye is almost mystically acute. This Barry Benefield, whom one cannot help identifying with Jim Pickett, seems to have no unusual gifts or tricks. Yet he is quite as irresistible as the others. An unforgettable book...