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...this is a straightforward story of Cape Cod fisher folk, presented with a wealth of detail. The foot of the daughter of a lighthouse keeper slips on the rocks. The wealthy father of a young man tries to keep his son from marrying the daughter who made the faux pas, and has him shanghaied. But youth will be served, especially with a storm to help (in bringing a reconciliation. It is a slightly haunting echo of Kingsley's "Men must work and women must weep," and the cast is capable ? except when they let their emotions run away with...
Were MM. Fiquet and Juillard perplexed? Pas de tout. Fiquet had an inspiration-a zoning system. Let the children of the poor eat with their families from 12 to 2. Let the children of the middle-classes eat from 11:30 to 1:30. Sensible, intricate, flexible, the system to be evolved will pay obeisance to the chief gods of the French bureaucracy: omnipresent paternalism, involved elaboration of red tape, with a strong substratum of invaluable commonsense...
...players was their outraged conviction that the Australian Club doubted their English-ness. In a land many thousands of miles from Lombard Street the title of Englishman is worth claiming; if a dish of afternoon tea will prove it, by all means let it be served. Another such "fnux pas" by the cricket club manager candidate will no doubt be the occasion for-cutting...
...first issues of the new Post were not without their journalistic faux pas; for example, a streamer headline over a sport page; ROCKEFELLER SPENDS VACATION ON FLORIDA LINKS?OTHER LIVE SPORT NEWS...
...Crown Prince committing a comme il ne faut pas...