Word: parthenia
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...precarious paradise-beleaguered from without by The City, source of the commuter's money, and by proletarian Parthenia down by the railroad tracks, from which emerge teen-age toughs, rapacious plumbers and reefer-smoking baby sitters. It may be attacked from within by moral failure. Felicity is threatened by the second wife, the third mortgage, the fourth child, or the fifth martini. In Proxmire Manor, as in Eden itself, the penalty for sin is banishment-but only to the next town. The angel at the gates may be a suburban bank manager or may appear, as in The Wapshot...
Virginal Pieces from Parthenia...
...game will be played, as many another business game, for the benefit of women, since what stock Mrs. Corrigan does not own is owned by Mrs. Price McKinney, Mrs. Stevenson Burke, widow of the judge, and Mrs. Parthenia Burke Ross, his granddaughter...
...Alexis de Tarnowsky, Chairman, Miss Margaret Ropes; G. D. Reuter, Miss Katherine Shaw; L. W. Grossman, Miss Dorothy Nickerson; F. T. Hord, Miss Rosalie Martin; J. O. Tragard, Miss Helen Tibbetts; Benjamin Brewster, Miss Parthenia Davis...
...shorter poems universally accepted as treasures of the language-many from the Elizabethan singers-and prose pieces from the best writers of the last three centuries. In the third book are, for example, many fine, strong ballads; in the fourth Sir Philip Sidney's beautiful story of Argalus and Parthenia is a part; while in the fifth one finds the better parts of such things as Walton's "Herbert," and Carlyle's "Burns...