Word: scoutish
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...when one player has snaffled all the chips. Often the big winner, though honest, gets hurt, or his good friend does. To suggest that the big winner redistribute some of the chips among the losers so that the game can go on and no one get hurt, sounds boy-scoutish. Yet if the game must go on, what suggestion could be more practical...
...this boy-scoutish fashion college students are politely rapped on the knuckles and told that if they would have planned their work from the beginning of the quarter they would not have had to cram...
...hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which...
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