Word: orphans
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...Moreover our camps are too large. They resemble nothing more than orphan asylums transplanted to the woods. . . . The best camp we have is far in the woods of Minnesota, where the girls have a canoe portage of several miles to the nearest village, and where they often meet bears on the trail...
There exists in the College a rather minor rule that requires instrutors in full courses to test the work of the first half year on the final examination. It is a minor rule because it is an orphan. No one seems to enforce it or obey it. Hence there can be no protest against the educational injustice it might inflict by demanding detailed knowledge best forgotten. In its present status, the rule evokes comment only on the mild absurdity of its existence...
...adoption of orphan twins by two worthy bachelors is the axis of the evening. Two worthy young women marry the bachelors in the end and the twins are disposed of to their Irish father in Denver. There bustles through the entertainment a fussy and magnificently maidenly sister of one of the bachelors, to whose share falls much of the comedy. This part, played by Laura Hope Crews, was easily the most eventful. Ernest Truex did pretty well as the more cowardly of the adoptive bachelors...
...childhood is a crystal ball wherein the seer discovers an im- placable inferiority feeling fastened upon the sensitive orphan son of an itinerant actress and a disinherited Baltimore mooncalf. The child was sheltered, not adopted, by hardheaded John Allan of Richmond. He was insecure in a town of lordly livers. And what went deeper, at home and at school his mother's calling was made his shame. Psychoanalysis calls his loyal passion for her dead purity a "fixation." Another woman once laid a kind hand upon his head, and upon her too he "fixed" after her death...
Thus Mary Lewis, an orphan, ran away from her adopted parents-the Rev. and Mrs. William Fitch of Little Rock, Ark.-to become a chorus girl. The stair that creaked in that breathless dawn seven years ago still creaks, loudly and efficiently, as people pass up and down on household business. But last week Mary Lewis, current sensation of the Metropolitan Opera company and supreme example of What May Happen to a Chorus Girl, went back to Little Rock...