Word: mends
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...allay Socialist anger he has also decreed that sewing, knitting, weaving and saddlery shall be equally compulsory. Before receiving diplomas, girls must know how to mend their frocks; boys, their shoes...
nobody came to mend the rotting fences...
...rehabilitation. And Russia today persists not only in refusing to take those measures byt also in sticking to the very measures and practices which have brought distress and ruin upon her. Whether the clique of tyrants who are responsible for her fatuous course with its disastrous results will mend their ways and conform to the economic principles which the world in general is agreed upon as essential to prosperity, and to those moral principles which will permit other nations to enter into confident and friendly relations with her, is a question which only the future can answer. But whatever they...
...report comes from the library that the book thieves are still plying their trade. They have in no way been discouraged by the exhortations to mend their ways which have been directed at them. It is not surprising that they have not; a man who will forge a desk slip or practice any other of the deceptions resorted to is not likely to be much impressed by any appeal to his sense of duty...
...system; indeed, there were not a few places where the lines spoke with startling earnestness. But then we should be taking G. B. S. seriously and he himself would in all probability be the first to laugh at us for doing so. And after all, he suggests nothing to mend the situation he seems to deplore; the play starts nowhere and ends there. No, the man is an enigma, and must be enjoyed as such. Some day someone will write a volume about him, but we predict brain fever for the author...